Pass array to "Labview 7" DLL in Visual Basic

Hi!
I would like to pass arrays in Visual Basic to a LV DLL made in Labview 7.
I've seen the examples of NI to create a dll in Labview for Visual Basic and for passing arrays, but all the examples were made with Labview 6.
The problem is that in the tutorial they say to define the Pass By of the argument as Array Data Pointer, but in Labview 7 when I add an array as an argument I don't have that option.. It's always defined as TD1Hdl* inArray, and in Labview 6 it was defined as float64 inArray[].
Can I use the TD1Hdl structure in Visual Basic? How do I use it?
Thanks!

Unfortunately, i'm not expert in Visual Basic, i need to investigate in your problem.
See link below, that explain how you can use LabVIEW DLL in Visual Basic.
http://venus.ni.com/stage/we/niepd_web_display.DISPLAY_EPD4?p_answer=&p_guid=B45EACE3D9E556A4E034080...
http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=100151&requireLogin=False
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/devzoneweb.nsf/Opendoc?openagent&4303F9807BFE234486256906007259EF
Regards,
Christophe S.
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