.NET and COM: The Complete Interoperability Guide

Chapter 19. Deeper Into PInvoke and Useful Examples

In This Chapter

• Callbacks

• Passing Structures

• Handling Variable-Length Structures and Signatures

• Using C# Unsafe Code

• Guarding Against Premature Garbage Collection

• Choosing the DLL Location or Name Dynamically

• Example: Responding Immediately to Console Input

• Example: Clearing the Console Screen

• Example: Using CoCreateInstanceEx to Activate Remote COM Objects

In this chapter, we cover a variety of advanced topics, but focus mainly on two essential topics that weren’t covered in the previous chapter: callbacks and structure marshaling. In examining these topics, we cover useful examples that you might want to copy and paste into your own applications. You can never have too ...