Windows API and .net languages

Question

People always advised me that if I am doing some application that should use some Windows APIs to do any process level job, I must use VC++ and not any other .net language.<

Answer 1

For most tasks where the class libraries do not provide help, using P/Invoke is usually fine. There are many "rough" APIs out there that benefit from a simple C++/CLI wrapper. It's usually best to do the bare minimum in the C++/CLI code -- effectively massaging what ever ugliness is below for consumption by C#, VB.NET, etc.