Determining Win32 API Support in the .NET Framework
From time to time .NET developers will need to use a native Win32 API to get some platform specific work done. One of the first things I ask myself when I start writing out Interop signatures is "Does the .NET framework already support this?". The breadth of classes in the framework can be daunting and it's not always easy to answer that question. Often the conversations and references online revolve around the native API so that isn't always a help. Searching the MSDN docs can also lead to dead ends as the concepts and naming conventions are often modernized in the framework.