Understanding P/Invokes
Calls to Windows API functions are known as Platform Invokes or P/Invokes. The Visual Basic programming language offers two ways of performing platform invokes:
Declare keyword
System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport attribute
The Declare keyword has a behavior similar to what happened in Visual Basic 6, and it has been kept for compatibility; however, you should always use the DllImport attribute because this is the one way recognized by the Common Language Specification. Now you can see how to declare a P/Invoke. The ...
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