Can we power off and power on USB devices

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I am using a USB class for a reader writer. can I make the device off programatically.The device is taking power from usb port that is taking its power from the usb port. :)

Posted 5-Dec-09 9:01am

J imran

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Abhishek Sur · Answer 1 · 2010-02-06T07:01:00

Solution 2

You might use Win32 management api to do this.

See this article :
Eject USB disks using C#[^]

I hope this will help you.
:rose:

Posted 6-Feb-10 7:01am

Abhishek Sur

VirtualIdeal · Answer 2 · 2010-02-06T04:30:00

Solution 1

it depends whether the device provide "DLL" for C# to import so that you can call them and handle

Posted 6-Feb-10 4:30am

VirtualIdeal