Read binary file into a struct

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The problem is the strings in your struct. I found that marshaling types like byte/short/int is not a problem; but when you need to marshal into a complex type such as a string, you need your struct to explicitly mimic an unmanaged type. You can do this with the MarshalAs attrib.

For your example, the following should work:

[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Explicit)]
struct StructType
{
    [FieldOffset(0)]
    [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValTStr, SizeConst = 8)]
    public string FileDate;

    [FieldOffset(8)]
    [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValTStr, SizeConst = 8)]
    public string FileTime;

    [FieldOffset(16)]
    public int Id1;

    [FieldOffset(20)]
    [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValTStr, SizeConst = 66)] //Or however long Id2 is.
    public string Id2;
}

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