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On The Blink (Matt Gertz)

February 26, 2010 Feb 26, 2010 02/26/10
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
One of the really fun things about being associated with the Visual Basic team is getting to see all of the varied usages to which our customers put it.  From enterprise software to games, our customer base covers a wide range.  The most fun to see, however, are the hobby applications, because the writers of that code come up with ...

PInvoke Interop Assistant on CodePlex (Jared Parsons)

June 20, 2008 Jun 20, 2008 06/20/08
VBTeam
I'm happy to announce that the PInvoke Interop Assistant tool is now available on CodePlex.  This includes the binaries, source code and the dev authored unit tests.  It is hosted on the more general CLR Interop Tools page.  http://www.codeplex.com/clrinterop I will be actively maintaining this tool in the future and (hopefully...

Making PInvoke Easy

March 14, 2008 Mar 14, 2008 03/14/08
VBTeam
Jared here again.  I very excited to announce we recently released a tool I've been working on to MSDN that will greatly help with using PInvoke in managed code.  The tool is called the "PInvoke Interop Assistant" and is included as part of a MSDN article on marshalling data for PInvoke and Reverse PInvoke scenarios.  Here is ...