March 2002
Intermediate to advanced
864 pages
31h 8m
English
The .NET runtime supports bi-directional interop with unmanaged code via COM, COM+, and native Win32 API calls. The FCL provides a set of classes and attributes that support this, including precise control of managed object lifetime, and the option of creating user-defined custom marshallers to handle specific interop situations (see Chapter 17 and Chapter 18).
For more information, see the following namespaces:
System.Runtime.InteropServices System.Runtime.InteropServices.CustomMarshalers System.Runtime.InteropServices.Expando
An important related type in another namespace is System.Buffer.