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Hi, I am writing a LabVIEW API based on a 3rd party DLL. The DLL function I am working on right now returns a string and 2 U32. The string is only an output, but the 2 U32 are used as both inputs and outputs. So long story short the 3 parameters are defined as pointers. The 2 U32 work as specified in the documentation, one of them (psize) returning the number of characters that the string is supposed to return. However I can't get the string properly. The documentation tells me that it is a C String and I configured the parameter as such, but when I run the function I get only the first character of what I'm supposed to get. The next test I made (see below) returns all the other characters except the first one and helped me understand why this first test returned only the first character: the string is Unicode! This means that each character (though able to be represented in ASCII) takes 2 bytes, one of them being the null character. And since a C string ends when the null character is encountered, this explain why LabVIEW only gives me the ASCII value of the first character. In the second test I'm talking about, I modified the parameter to be a Pascal String Pointer instead of C String Pointer. I got all the characters except the first one, which makes sense I guess since the first character is the length in a Pascal string. Basically so far I haven't managed to find a way to read the whole string in one call. I would love to find a solution where I just ask for an array of bytes and just perform my own parsing, but the DLL returns an Invalid Parameter error when I try it. Have you run into something similar? Do you have any tips? Help would be much appreciated!! (on top of this issue, LabVIEW crashed 50% of the time )