# Microsoft Detours

> Monitor Windows API calls by embedding instrumentation into a program’s execution path.

- Type: Tool
- Targets: App · Binary
- Category: Debugging and dynamic analysis
- Relationship: Foundation tool
- Sources reviewed: 2026-10-29
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/microsoft/Detours>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/microsoft/Detours/blob/1dbd4ea281d73d478aa8d09a8b83fbd265f715f7/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/microsoft-detours/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/microsoft-detours/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/microsoft-detours/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- Requires Windows and a native application/toolchain that can integrate the Detours library. The README describes the Windows NT family and identifies the source as version 4.0.1.
- Windows Store applications cannot use Detours because required APIs are unavailable there. Detours is MIT-licensed.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/microsoft/Detours/blob/1dbd4ea281d73d478aa8d09a8b83fbd265f715f7/README.md>

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