Sunday, November 2, 2008

pinvoke.net: the interop wiki!

 

PInvoke.net is primarily a wiki, allowing developers to find, edit and add PInvoke* signatures, user-defined types, and any other information related to calling Win32 and other unmanaged APIs from managed code (written in languages such as C# or VB.NET).

.NET developers worldwide can easily contribute to the community, sharing their valuable knowledge, whenever they have time to do so.

New to Wikis? Try the Playground to experiment with the editing process

Copy and paste your way to productivity

Certain things just can't be done in pure .NET, and developers have to drill down to the Windows API. This is achieved through .NET’s Platform Invoke (PInvoke) functionality, which requires declarations to be supplied by the developer. Manually defining and using PInvoke signatures is an error-prone process that can introduce subtle bugs. PInvoke.net supplies you with tried and tested signatures and type definitions, so that you don't have to spend time writing them from scratch.

pinvoke.net: the interop wiki!

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