Reading from an USB barcode scanner

Question

I\'ve got this nice USB barcode scanner and I\'d like to readthe input using the USB driver and not the keyboard input.

How can this be accomplished using .NET? any

Answer 1

You can read (and control) the device using USB HID reports.

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/USB_HID.aspx

http://www.florian-leitner.de/index.php/2007/08/03/hid-usb-driver-library/