pinvoke.net: Edit: kernel32.CreateThread

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!!!!Warning: All signatures on this page are wrong as of 2014-01-24. dwStackSize is SIZE_T and ThreadStart has the wrong delegate signature. It only works by coincidence.

Summary: The CreateThread API

!!!!C# Signature:
 [DllImport("Kernel32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto, SetLastError = true)]
 private unsafe static extern uint CreateThread(
            uint* lpThreadAttributes,
            uint dwStackSize,
            ThreadStart lpStartAddress,
            uint* lpParameter,
            uint dwCreationFlags,
            out uint lpThreadId);
!!!!Notes:
None.

!!!!Sample Code:

public delegate void StartThread();

unsafe uint StartThread(StartThread ThreadFunc, int StackSize)
        {
            uint a = 0;
            uint* lpThrAtt = &a;
            uint i = 0;
            uint* lpParam = &i;
            uint lpThreadID = 0;

uint dwHandle = CreateThread(null, (uint)StackSize, ThreadFunc, lpParam, 0, out lpThreadID);
            if (dwHandle == 0) throw new Exception("Unable to create thread!");
            return dwHandle;
        }
!!!!Tips & Tricks:
Please add some!

!!!!C# Signature:
 [DllImport("kernel32.dll")]
 static extern IntPtr CreateThread([In] ref SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES
   SecurityAttributes, uint StackSize, System.Threading.ThreadStart StartFunction,
   IntPtr ThreadParameter, uint CreationFlags, out uint ThreadId);
!!!!User-Defined Types:
SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES

!!!!Notes:
None.

!!!!Tips & Tricks:
Please add some!

!!!!Sample Code:
Please add some!

!!!!Alternative Managed API:
Try System.Threading.Thread.Start. It doesn't give you all the control of directly calling CreateThread, (such as specifing the flags), but it will get you a vanilla thread to spin up.

Documentation: CreateThread@msdn on MSDN