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TedDoesntTalk on March 17, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Something Pretty Right: The History and Legacy of ...

It is not true that you could do everything in early .NET that you could do with Win32. Not all Win32 functions were exposed in .NET

starik36 on March 17, 2023 [–]

You could always PInvoke into any Win32 function. There was/is even a website to help you with a declaration. https://www.pinvoke.net/

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