Connect and disconnect USB devices programmatically

Question

I need to connect and disconnect USB devices, such as flash drives, in a programmatical manner, without unplugging and re-plugging the device.

Is there any way to do it in a C# Windows application?

Answer 1

You might want to look at some related questions:

• Safe remove USB-Drive using Win32 API?
• Windows - Power off an usb device in software

Both of the approaches mentioned in the answers are readily translatable to C#.