No use starting another thread for this:  On this same subject, I've been messing around with Marshalling, and working with unmanaged pointers, etc.. and it looks like I might have found something that works, but I thought I'd ask in hopes that somebody with more experience in the field might notice any obvious flaws in my thinking. So my ...

Okay, so I've got a working solution for the time being- it's not pretty, but since it's only used during debug builds, I'm okay with that.  If it comes down to the point of my needing to pass strings in a release build, I'll worry about making something more elegant then, but basically what I've done is added the following ...

Thanks for all the info guys!So obviously, my thoughts about how to achieve this aren't going to work- does anybody else have some other ideas about how I might achieve my desired result?

Yes, I gathered it was something along those lines- but then I saw people using "MarshalAs" and whatnot to have it marshalled as an unmanaged type (What exactly -is- marshalling anyways?), and also I starting giving thought to fixed size "classic" arrays of characters- but I couldn't find a way to use them in that structure ...

So I've recently implemented the multithreading architecture described in this article: http://www.ziggyware.com/readarticle.php?article_id=221 -- It's all working great, but I'm having a small issue with what sorts of values I can use in the buffer. A quick once-over of the buffer, for those who don't want to check the ...

Looking more deeply into this subject, I have things mostly working how I intend, but to have some things more efficient on some other cross-thread code, I have a question: I know it's not thread-safe to have situations where an object can be modified in one thread while at the same time being read in another thread, but if you can GUARANTEE ...

So does that mean on the XBox, you wouldn't have to worry about handing lost/reset devices and such if you're never going to call GraphicsDevice.Apply() then?

Ah- I can see signatures now- but thank you for the link anyways MJP^^

Your post doesn't show your sig right now- have you maybe disabled it recently and forgotten to show it again? It sounds like what you describe ContentTracker to be is exactly what I'm looking for, so I look forward to peeking at it's workings! ^^

So I've been toying with this idea for some time now, but my limited experience with multithreading is making me wonder how plausible my ideas really are~ I'm aware that the ContentManager, as it is, is not thread-safe.  I've also already gone thru and gotten working a multi-threaded loading screen with a basic animation playing while ...