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Everything about Platform Invocation Services
CLI feature that enables managed code to call native code
Platform Invocation Services, commonly referred to as P/Invoke, is a feature of Common Language Infrastructure implementations, like Microsoft's Common Language Runtime, that enables managed code to call native code. Wikipedia →
🧠Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Platform Invocation ServicesA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Shapes of ClayThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: A QoS-aware composition method supporting cross-platform service invocation in cloud environmentCited 46 times
- Go sideways: Blittable typesA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Managed Extensions for C++A closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
đź“š Books worth reading
Shapes of ClayAmbrose Bierce · 1903
Theory and Practice of ComputationShin-ya Nishizaki · 2013
Book of Vodou PrayersMambo Vye Zo Komande LaMenfo · 2019
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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