Ok, i tried a different approach to the actual DECLARE statement of the API function. I changed my general DECLARE statement to:

    <DllImport("dnsapi", EntryPoint:="DnsQuery_W", CharSet:=CharSet.Unicode, SetLastError:=True, ExactSpelling:=True)> _
    Private Shared Function DnsQuery(<MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.VBByRefStr)> _
        ByRef pszName As String, ByVal wType As QueryTypes, ByVal options As QueryOptions, ByVal aipServers As Integer, ByRef ppQueryResults As IntPtr, ByVal pReserved As Integer) As Integer
    End Function

    <DllImport("dnsapi", CharSet:=CharSet.Auto, SetLastError:=True)> _
        Private Shared Sub DnsRecordListFree(ByVal pRecordList As IntPtr, ByVal FreeType As Integer)
    End Sub

This seemed to do the trick. Now of course, I don't know why, because I thought DLLImport and Declare was the same thing in essence. Yet apparently, DLLImport worked whereas Declare did not.

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