ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Platform Invocation Services

Platform Invocation Services (P/Invoke) is like a magic spell that helps your computer talk to different languages. Just like how you and your friend might speak different languages and need a translator to understand each other, computers also have different ways of speaking and understanding languages.

P/Invoke is that translator that helps different languages understand each other when working on the same project. For example, if you're writing a program in C# (which is a language used by Microsoft) and you need to use a function written in C (which is another language), P/Invoke can help translate the C code so that your C# program can use it.

Think of P/Invoke as a magical device that makes it possible for two different languages to work together like best buddies, even though they might not naturally be able to communicate with each other.