See the question and my original answer on StackOverflow

You can redefine the interface like this for example:

internal interface IShellFolder
{
    void ParseDisplayName (
        [In] IntPtr hwnd,
        [In] IBindCtx pbc,
        [In, MarshalAs (UnmanagedType.LPWStr)] string pszDisplayName,
        IntPtr pchEaten,
        [Out] out PIDLIST ppidl,
        [In, Out] ref SFGAO pdwAttributes);
    // ...
}

And call it like this if you want to pass null:

ParseDisplayName(...., IntPtr.Zero, ...);

Or like this if you want to pass a uint value:

IntPtr p = Marshal.AllocHGlobal(Marshal.SizeOf(typeof(uint)));
uint i = 1234;
Marshal.StructureToPtr(i, p, false);
ParseDisplayName(...., p, ...);
i = (uint)Marshal.PtrToStructure(p, typeof(uint)); // read the value back
Marshal.FreeHGlobal(p);