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System.Runtime.InteropServices Namespace
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This API supports the .NET Framework infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code.
The System.Runtime.InteropServices namespace provides types that support COM interop and platform invoke services.
Classes
| Class | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Public class | AllowReversePInvokeCallsAttribute | Allows an unmanaged method to call a managed method. |
| Public class | ClassInterfaceAttribute | Infrastructure. Indicates the type of class interface to be generated for a class exposed to COM, if an interface is generated at all. |
| Public class | CoClassAttribute | Infrastructure. Specifies the class identifier of a coclass imported from a type library. |
| Public class | ComDefaultInterfaceAttribute | Infrastructure. Specifies a default interface to expose to COM. This class cannot be inherited. |
| Public class | COMException | Infrastructure. The exception that is thrown when an unrecognized HRESULT is returned from a COM method call. |
| Public class | ComImportAttribute | Infrastructure. Indicates that the attributed type was previously defined in COM. |
| Public class | ComVisibleAttribute | Infrastructure. Controls accessibility of an individual managed type or member, or of all types within an assembly, to COM. |
| Public class | CriticalHandle | Infrastructure. Represents a wrapper class for handle resources. |
| Public class | DefaultCharSetAttribute | Infrastructure. Specifies the value of the CharSet enumeration. This class cannot be inherited. |
| Public class | DispIdAttribute | Infrastructure. Specifies the COM dispatch identifier (DISPID) of a method, field, or property. |
| Public class | DllImportAttribute | Infrastructure. Indicates that the attributed method is exposed by an unmanaged dynamic-link library (DLL) as a static entry point. |
| Public class | ExternalException | Infrastructure. The base exception type for all COM interop exceptions and structured exception handling (SEH) exceptions. |
| Public class | FieldOffsetAttribute | Infrastructure. Indicates the physical position of fields within the managed and unmanaged representation of a class or structure. |
| Public class | GuidAttribute | Infrastructure. Supplies an explicit System.Guid when an automatic GUID is undesirable. |
| Public class | InAttribute | Infrastructure. Indicates that data should be marshaled from the caller to the callee, but not back to the caller. |
| Public class | InterfaceTypeAttribute | Infrastructure. Indicates whether a managed interface is dual, dispatch-only, or IUnknown -only when exposed to COM. |
| Public class | Marshal | Infrastructure. Provides a collection of methods for allocating unmanaged memory, copying unmanaged memory blocks, and converting managed to unmanaged types, as well as other miscellaneous methods used when interacting with unmanaged code. |
| Public class | MarshalAsAttribute | Infrastructure. Indicates how to marshal the data between managed and unmanaged code. |
| Public class | MarshalDirectiveException | Infrastructure. The exception that is thrown by the marshaler when it encounters a MarshalAsAttribute it does not support. |
| Public class | OptionalAttribute | Infrastructure. Indicates that a parameter is optional. |
| Public class | OutAttribute | Infrastructure. Indicates that data should be marshaled from callee back to caller. |
| Public class | PreserveSigAttribute | Infrastructure. Indicates that the HRESULT or retval signature transformation that takes place during COM interop calls should be suppressed. |
| Public class | SafeHandle | Infrastructure. Represents a wrapper class for operating system handles. This class must be inherited. |
| Public class | SEHException | Infrastructure. Represents Structured Exception Handler (SEH) errors. |
| Public class | StructLayoutAttribute | Infrastructure. The StructLayoutAttribute class allows the user to control the physical layout of the data fields of a class or structure. |
| Public class | UnmanagedFunctionPointerAttribute | Infrastructure. Controls the marshaling behavior of a delegate signature passed as an unmanaged function pointer to or from unmanaged code. This class cannot be inherited. |
Structures
| Structure | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Public structure | GCHandle | Infrastructure. Provides a means for accessing a managed object from unmanaged memory. |
Enumerations
| Enumeration | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Public enumeration | CallingConvention | Infrastructure. Specifies the calling convention required to call methods implemented in unmanaged code. |
| Public enumeration | CharSet | Infrastructure. Dictates which character set marshaled strings should use. |
| Public enumeration | ClassInterfaceType | Infrastructure. Identifies the type of class interface that is generated for a class. |
| Public enumeration | ComInterfaceType | Infrastructure. Identifies how to expose an interface to COM. |
| Public enumeration | GCHandleType | Infrastructure. Represents the types of handles the GCHandle class can allocate. |
| Public enumeration | LayoutKind | Infrastructure. Controls the layout of an object when exported to unmanaged code. |
| Public enumeration | UnmanagedType | Infrastructure. Identifies how to marshal parameters or fields to unmanaged code. |