Learn why you need P/Invoke if you would like to control the marshaling or conversions associated with a call to a function where data types may need to be converted.
Marshaling and Conversion with P/Invoke
Published 10/21/2003
Learn why you need P/Invoke if you would like to control the marshaling or conversions associated with a call to a function where data types may need to be converted.
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