The C# programming language doesn’t allow you to work with pointers by default. You need to use the unsafe keyword to define an unsafe context and write code that uses pointers. Unsafe code ...

In other words, a pointer holds the memory address of another variable or a memory location. Until recently, the only way to work with pointers in C# was by using unsafe code.

I am trying to implement a WM_MOVING handler on a WndProc for a form. Reading through the PlatformSDK and the .NET Framework I have come to the conclusion that I will need to write unsafe C# code ...

Widely used open-source code unsafe The report presents research examining 172 broadly deployed open-source projects, finding that over half contain memory-unsafe code.