Talk:Platform Invocation Services

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[edit] Marshalling in P/Invoke calls.

I removed the claim that "The runtime uses the same data marshaling for PInvoke as is used for COM interoperability... ". A WP search on "marshalling" redirects to "Serialization", and there is certainly no serialization involved in a call across p/invoke, because there is no known serializer/deserializer on the unmanaged side. Leotohill 20:03, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

I didn't write this part of the article, but Microsoft uses "marshalling" in their MSDN documentation. Still, as it has no relationship with Serialization, I agree that it can be confusing and that removing it from the header of the article was preferable. I added an explanation in the "Usage" part of the article to explain what "marshalling" means in the P/Invoke context. Hervegirod 11:04, 6 November 2006 (UTC)