convert simple c++ code to equivilant c code?

hi,

i am a .net developer and know a small bit about c/c++

i dont know if this is possible, but i have a program written in c as a DLL that NEARLY does what i need.  im basically trying to get it to pass one of its strings back to .net code by supplying .net with a function that it can call to get the string in question

i have made up a test C++ DLL with the same type of code that i need and it passes the string back perfectly to .net.  but when i try to use this code in the c DLL, it fails.  i think it is because i dont have the stdafx.h included - and i cant for the life of me get it to compile when i do include it.  is there another way around this? or does anyone know how to get these two functions to work in C without including that file?

the only restriction is that they must be exactly like below in terms of the function argument - i.e. i need to pass in a char**  and i'm nearly sure i need to release it as per the other function to avoid memory leaks.  i also need the shared data segment - since this is what is used in the other c DLL

thanks!

// Shared DATA declaration
#pragma data_seg(".SHARDATA")
#define STRING_SIZE 255
char acString[STRING_SIZE] = "\0";
#pragma data_seg()

__declspec( dllexport ) void getString(char** p)
{
    *p = new char[STRING_SIZE];
      strncpy ( acString, "test string", STRING_SIZE - 1);
      strcpy(*p, acString);
}

__declspec( dllexport) void ReleaseString(char* p)
{
    delete[] p;
}