Programmatically enabling/disabling hardware device

Question

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[.NET] How do I disable a system device?
Win32 API function to programatically enable/disable device

Is there a way, in C#, to programmatically disable and re-enable a device? I'm looking for essentially the same functionality that occurs when you go into device manager and right click on a device and disable or enable it. How can I do this in C#?

Answer 1

Take a look at net-how-do-i-disable-a-system-device.

Answer 2

According to this link: http://bytes.com/topic/c-sharp/answers/513855-can-i-use-wmi-c-disable-enable-device

You need to interface with CfgMgr32 (Win32 API) to do this.

My first thought was to look at WMI but it's not there.

DevCon, which comes with the Device Drive Toolkit, provides a CLI to do this.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff541193(VS.85).aspx