What is PInvoke and what are its use in C#

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What is PInvoke and what are its use in C#.

Posted 8-Mar-12 1:04am

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And a few more here[^].

Posted 8-Mar-12 1:55am

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323,000 google search results for the search phrase "what is pinvoke" [^]

Posted 8-Mar-12 1:15am

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Prasad_Kulkarni 8-Mar-12 7:23am

its 322,000 ;) laugh,!

#realJSOP 8-Mar-12 8:31am

I'm a little dyslexic today. :)

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Pranit Kothari · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-08T05:20:00

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If you want to call unmanaged functions from managed code, then then PInvoke is the way.

See following links,
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa288468(v=vs.71).aspx[^]

This[^] link is very helpful regarding PInvoke.

Posted 8-Mar-12 5:20am

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pietvredeveld 8-Mar-12 13:14pm

In addition to the links mentioned above, you should know that the functions should be in the NativeMethods (or SafeNativeMethods, UnsafeNativeMethods) class. See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms182161%28v=vs.80%29.aspx.

Piet