Introduction to unsafe C#: Calling native code and crashing in entirely new ways - Dennis Dietrich

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Does your C# code have enough access violations? How about mutating supposedly immutable strings? No? What about buffer overflows or heap corruptions? Learn how to do all of this in pure C#, no C or C++ required! In this talk, we’ll be looking at pointers, unions, unmanaged memory, implementing IDisposable and finalizers, and how to call and be called by native code.

[@bootie]

I love how this shows up in my feed exactly as I need to learn how to call a C library in C#

[@dcdietrich]

Thanks to everyone who's commented so far. I went through several iterations of this talk and spent a lot of time updating and refining the content. It makes me very happy that all this effort paid off.

[@djchrisi]

the idea to use sqlite as an example is just brilliant. it's not trivial jet intuitive.

[@djchrisi]

I have been p/invoking for a long time. Lots of hardware manufactures just release a dll with c headers to interact with their hardware.
This talk is a very good summary of the things I encountered. Some parts had to be cut short because of the time, but it is nice to see to much useful information in a 60 minutes time. Well done Dennis!

[@sealsharp]

Zero comments? WTF is wrong with you people ? This is amazing!

[@andreydeev4342]

Great talk, thanks!

[@ciberman]

Very good talk!

[@eugene5096]

for 15 yrs of .net programming just faced a win32 pinvoke, but always love to see something unsafe like this )