A system and method is provided for efficiently pinning references to the managed heap. The system and method allow for references to managed objects to be declared as pinned during a call to unmanaged code. The references are then reported as pinned to a garbage collector in response to invocation of...http://www.google.es/patents/US7454447?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatente US7454447 - Declarative pinning
