How to View a P/Invoke Signature
The term "P/Invoke Signature" derives from Platform Invocation Services, which are methods that call native code. Native codes are the instructions that directly talk to your Windows computer's internal processor. P/Invoke signatures are sometimes needed when programmers of Visual Basic, also called .NET programmers, need to do something that the Visual Basic language can't do. P/Invoke signature essentially has two parts: the signature or method name that calls (or invokes) the code logic, and the logic itself. The method names are available online; viewing the logic itself is the difficult, but by no means impossible, part.
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Instructions
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Download the P/Invoke plug-in. This plug-in is the only one that shows the code logic of P/Invoke signatures directly in your Visual Studio editor. Follow the installation instructions to have the plug-in installed on your computer.
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Open Visual Studio.
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Click on the "PInvoke.net" tab in the menu bar.
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Select "Insert Pinvoke Signatures."
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In the search bar that appears, type in the name of the P/Invoke signature you wish to view or a function that you wish to perform with a P/Invoke signature.
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Click on the P/Invoke statement that appears on the left panel. The signature and code logic appear in the panel on the bottom right of the window under "Signature 1."
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