Working with USB devices in .NET

Question

Using .Net (C#), how can you work with USB devices?

How can you detect USB events (connections/disconnections) and how do you communicate with devices (read/write).

Answer 1

I'd recommend LibUSBDotNet, the library I have been using for 2 years. If you have to work with an USB device (send requests, process responses), this library was the best solution I could find.

Pros:

• Has all methods you need to work in synch or asynch mode.
• Source code provided
• Enough samples to start using it straight away.

Cons:

• Poor documentation (it's common problem for open source projects). Basically, you can find just common description of methods in the CHM help file and that's it. But I still find provided samples and source code is enough for coding. Just sometimes I see a strange behaviour and want to know why it was implemented in this way and can't get even a hint...
• Seems unsupported any more. Last version was issued in Oct 2010. And it's hard to get answers sometimes.