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+/*
+* Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+* or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+* distributed with this work for additional information
+* regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+* to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+* "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+* with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+*
+*   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+*
+* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+* software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+* "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+* KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+* specific language governing permissions and limitations
+* under the License.
+*/
+
+#pragma once
+
+using namespace System;
+using namespace System::Text;
+
+namespace Org {
+namespace Apache {
+namespace Qpid {
+namespace Messaging {
+
+
+
+// Helper functions for marshaling.
+
+private ref class QpidMarshal
+{
+private:
+	QpidMarshal::QpidMarshal() {}
+
+public:
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Convert managed String into native UTF8-encoded string
+    /// TODO: figure out some encoding other that UTF-8
+    /// </summary>
+
+    static std::string ToNative (System::String^ managed) 
+    {
+        if (managed->Length == 0) 
+        {
+            return std::string();
+        }
+
+        array<unsigned char>^ mbytes = Encoding::UTF8->GetBytes(managed);
+        if (mbytes->Length == 0) 
+        {
+            return std::string();
+        }
+
+        pin_ptr<unsigned char> pinnedBuf = &mbytes[0];
+        std::string native((char *) pinnedBuf, mbytes->Length);
+        return native;
+    }
+};
+
+}}}}