C# Struct No Parameterless Constructor? See what I need to accomplish

Question

I am using a struct to pass to an unmanaged DLL as so -

[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)]
        public struct valTable
        {
            public byt         


        

Answer 1

You can use a fixed size buffer - which I suspect you really want anyway, so as to get the data "inline" in the struct (rather than a reference to an array elsewhere).

public fixed byte name[24];

You'll need to declare the struct as unsafe as well though.

Note that any "solution" which requires calling a static method or providing any kind of custom constructor will fail with your explicit goal of being able to create an array of these structs.