Chris Toshok over on monologue post’s about minvoke, a tool to retarget p/invokes out of unmanged land and into managed code.
The potential of this tool is absolutely awesome. As I understood it, the primary reason is to enable the guys to shoe-horn portability onto .Net apps with over-zealous p/invokes into windows api calls. Makes sense.
But that’s not the only reason you’d use it. You could use this tool to force managed applications that call into native land to be completely managed, enabling you to ensure that the .Net security model is applied to every aspect of the code, or simply freeing yourself of the need to have developers around that can develop in more than just .Net.
As stupid as that sounds, it’s getting increasingly hard to find developers around that understand more than one language/framework. Even those that do, generally only understand multiple web-development languages. So if you ever find yourself in a situation where you are working on a Winforms app that needs to interface with a device of some sort you’d be shit out of luck.
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