If you are wondering what to use today, I'd consider using a new thing bound to an ancient thing: https://github.com/prasannavl/WinApi https://github.com/prasa

If you are wondering what to use today, I'd consider using a new thing bound to an ancient thing: https://github.com/prasannavl/WinApi https://github.com/prasannavl/WinApi There are several samples included that should give you a good starting point. The performance of this approach in modern C#/.NET is pretty close to native. Ref returns and what not.