Reading from USB device and sending queries to it, in C#

Question

I\'ve read this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1176053/, which was an insightful article.

However, I have no great background in WMI, and I found the large amo

Answer 1

I don't think that WMI code would be relevant for you, I think that's just able to get out basic information about the device. If you want to actually read and send data to it you'll have to use different APIs.
When I've done any USB develoment it's been mostly using HID which is fairly straightforward, but I don't think you can transfer audio streams using HID, you'll need to use the Audio class driver. Though you might need to use HID to find out information about the soundcard.

Some useful links to get you started are:

Jan Axelson's website (author of USB Complete) - http://janaxelson.com/usbc.htm

A USB HID Component for C# - http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/USB_HID.aspx?msg=2004501

A USB library for .Net - http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SharpUSBLib/

A Java sample for a webcam app - http://www.mutong.com/fischer/java/usbcam/

Answer 2

Here is another great one for reading and writing to USB devices:

http://winusbnet.codeplex.com/