C# Devcon functionality without Devcon?

Question

I have an app which is using DEVCON to do the following;

How can I do the same without using DEVCON at all? I still need the same functionality listed above.

I have looked into This question and answer but I need to tailor it more towards the criteria above. It also needs to work on x86, x64 and XP+.

Can anyone help with this?

yup, [Microsoft link](http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311272) — Pickled Egg, Oct 07 '13 at 15:03

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 02 '15 at 05:37

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To do it from C#, you'd have to pinvoke Windows Setup APIs

This link has an example in C of how the Setup APIs can be used to enumerate devices.

And interestingly enough, there is a Powershell module available on TechNet for Device Management.

If the license allows it, you could take a peek at the implementation, which is in .Net.

answered Jan 02 '15 at 05:37

Vikas Gupta

I will look into pinvoke. the PS module fails on windows 8.1 and no source available... – George Mauer Jan 08 '15 at 15:17

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