Cannot take the address of, get the size of, or declare a pointer to a managed type ('type name')

Question

this error stops compiling if i have one or more System.String in my structs
is there any other way to store strings?

i have tried things like this:

Answer 1

You can only get the address of a struct if it is blittable, i.e. it doesn't contain references.
See Blittable and Non-Blittable Types(MSDN)