Enumerating Windows Portable Devices in C#

Question

I am attempting to enumerate connected portable devices on Windows using the Windows Portable Devices API and the PortableDeviceManager provided by this API.

I have

Answer 1

The one line of Power-shell script below un-mounts a USB cable attached Windows Portable Device (WPD) from the Windows Operating System (XP thru W8/2012)

And just in case you have not yet started playing with Powershell, here is the equivalent VBScript (maybe be can port to C#):

Set objWMIService = GetObject ("winmgmts:\\.\root\cimv2")
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery ("Select * from Win32ext_WPD Where strFriendlyName = 'SAMSUNG-SGH-I747'")
For Each objItem in colItems
Set objWMIWPDStatic = objWMIService.Get("Win32ext_WPD")
Set objInParam = objWMIWPDStatic.Methods_("EjectDevice").inParameters.SpawnInstance_()
objInParam.Properties_.Item("strObjectDeviceId") =  objItem.strId
Set objOutParams = objWMIService.ExecMethod("Win32ext_WPD", "EjectDevice", objInParam)
Exit For
Next

Note change ‘SAMSUNG-SGH-I747′ to the phone/tablet name you see in Windows Explorer

About Win32ext_WPD

"Select * from Win32ext_WPD Where strFriendlyName = 'SAMSUNG-SGH-I747'"

Not well document googleing, not found more 2 references.

Maybe port to C# using:

var oScope = new ManagementScope(@"\\" + MachineName + @"\root\cimv2");

Reference:

http://squadratechnologies.wordpress.com/2013/07/24/windows-powershellvbscript-to-un-mount-a-smart-phone-or-tablet/