DLLImport vs DinamicInvoke or Method.Invoke in VB.NET

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I want to call function MoveFile from "Kernel32.dll".

1)First approach:

Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices

Public Class Form1

<DllImport("KERNEL32.DLL", EntryPoint:="MoveFileW", SetLastError:=True, CharSet:=CharSet.Unicode, ExactSpelling:=True, CallingConvention:=CallingConvention.StdCall)>
Public Shared Function MoveFile(ByVal src As String, ByVal dst As String) As Boolean
End Function

Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

Dim src As String = "C:\Users\Baha1990\Documents\Visual Studio 2017\Projects\WindowsApp1\TEST FILE\1\MSACCESS.accdb"
Dim dst As String = "C:\Users\Baha1990\Documents\Visual Studio 2017\Projects\WindowsApp1\TEST FILE\2\MSACCESS.accdb"
Dim RetVal As Boolean = MoveFile(src, dst)

End Sub

End Class

It works pretty well

  1. Second approach:
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices

Public Class Form1


<Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport("kernel32.dll", SetLastError:=True)> Private Shared Function LoadLibrary(ByVal lpFileName As String) As IntPtr
End Function
    
<Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport("kernel32.dll", SetLastError:=True, CharSet:=Runtime.InteropServices.CharSet.Ansi, ExactSpelling:=True)> Private Shared Function GetProcAddress(ByVal hModule As IntPtr, ByVal procName As String) As IntPtr
End Function

<UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.StdCall)>
Public Delegate Function _MoveFile(ByVal src As String, ByVal dst As String) As Boolean

Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

Dim src As String = "C:\Users\Baha1990\Documents\Visual Studio 2017\Projects\WindowsApp1\TEST FILE\1\MSACCESS.accdb"
Dim dst As String = "C:\Users\Baha1990\Documents\Visual Studio 2017\Projects\WindowsApp1\TEST FILE\2\MSACCESS.accdb"

 Dim pDll As IntPtr = IntPtr.Zero
 pDll = LoadLibrary("kernel32.dll")
 Dim pProc2D = GetProcAddress(pDll, "MoveFileW")
 Dim MoveFile = Marshal.GetDelegateForFunctionPointer(pProc2D, GetType(_MoveFile))

Dim RetVal = MoveFile.DynamicInvoke(src, dst) 'Here I get boolean as false it should be true
or
Dim RetVal = MoveFile.Method.Invoke(What to pass here in my case?)

End Sub

End Class

So Question: What is difference between DLLImport and DynamicInvoke or Method.Invoke, and why I have fail with DynamicInvoke and what params to pass to Method.Invoke?

Ok, in second approach I figure out that in this line:

<UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.StdCall)>

Needs additional params, after I edited as:

<UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.StdCall, SetLastError:=True, CharSet:=CharSet.Unicode)>

Dim RetVal = MoveFile.DynamicInvoke(src, dst) - DynamicInvoke works perfect.

So question what to pass as params to Method.Invoke still open.

Ok, I also figured out about Method.Invoke:

Dim param = {src, dst}

Dim RetVal = MoveFile.Method.Invoke(MoveFile, param) - works perfect.

So seems all three aproach works and gives same result, but what advantage gives these methods between each other. Who can explain?

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