I am having trouble converting this VB6 Type into a VB.Net Structure.
It's made hard by having fixed strings and fixed arrays. I continue to get
bad record lenth errors. This is despite the fact that the length of a file
with one record in it is exactly the same length as the VB.Net structure.

Any help would be greatly appreciated...

Public Type STANK8DATA
    Number(CLARTANKS) As String * 3
    TpMin(CLARTANKS) As Single
    TpMax(CLARTANKS) As Single
    Process(CLARTANKS) As String * 25
End Type

Public Structure STANK8DATA
    <VBFixedString(3), VBFixedArray(CLARTANKS)> Dim Number() As String
    <VBFixedArray(CLARTANKS)> Dim TpMin() As Single
    <VBFixedArray(CLARTANKS)> Dim TpMax() As Single
    <VBFixedString(25), VBFixedArray(CLARTANKS)> Dim Process() As String
End Structure

Derrick

Are the characters in the file Unicode or ASCII?  VB6
would read characters as ASCII and convert them to Unicode
automatically.  You may be reading two bytes at a time
rather than one.

Also, I don't know how to interpret the attributes but an
array declaration of 3 allocates 4 elements.

Keith

the length of a file