Chapter 49. Platform Invokes and Interoperability with the COM Architecture
The .NET Framework 4.0 Base Class Libraries offer tons of objects and methods for covering almost everything in modern application development. In most cases objects and methods are managed wrappers of the Windows Application Programming Interface (API) so that you can use them in the managed environment of the CLR. There can be situations where you need to access some operating system functionalities that have not been wrapped yet by the .NET Framework or you have legacy code exposed by COM objects, such as type libraries. Both the .NET Framework ...
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