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Essential C# 3.0: For .NET Framework 3.5
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Essential C# 3.0: For .NET Framework 3.5

by Mark Michaelis
August 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
880 pages
18h 35m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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20. Platform Interoperability and Unsafe Code

C# HAS GREAT CAPABILITIES, but sometimes it still isn’t sufficient and you need to escape out of all the safety it provides and step back into the world of memory addresses and pointers. C# supports this in three ways. The first way is to go through Platform Invoke (P/Invoke) and calls into APIs exposed by unmanaged DLLs. The second is through unsafe code, which enables access to memory pointers and addresses. Frequently, code uses these features in combination. The third way, which is not covered in this text, is through COM interoperability.

This chapter culminates with a small program that determines whether the computer is a virtual computer. The code requires that you do the following:

  1. Call ...
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