The Black Art of P/Invoke and Marshaling in .NET

Last week I finally managed to hunt down and resolve a bug that I had been chasing for quite some time. A couple of years ago I built an ASP.NET web service that makes use of a native library to provide most of its functionality. This native DLL exposes a C API, much like the Win32 API, that we’ve been using for integrating a highly-expensive product from a certain vendor into our system. I didn’