Rule S4071: Unmanaged Win32 APIs should not be used

[Evangelink]

RSPEC-4071

An incorrectly defined platform invoke method (marked with System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImportAttribute) can lead to runtime exceptions because of issues such as a misnamed function, faulty mapping of parameter and return value data types, and incorrect field specifications. If available, it is a lot less error prone, not to mention more secure and quite simpler, to call the equivalent managed method.

[Corniel]

An approach that could work is to mark all [DllImport] attributes, and provide a fix where possible. Or would that be problematic?

[Evangelink]

I would recommend to close this issue. I discussed it on runtime (see CA2205) and they said it's not worth porting it as it makes a lot less sense now that .NET is cross-platform.

cc @andrei-epure-sonarsource

[andrei-epure-sonarsource]

thanks @Evangelink