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Preventing viruses from entering a USB drive in Windows

by Praveen Kullu

Preventing viruses in a USB drive in Windows

Getting video stream from USB web-camera on Arduino Due - Part 4: USB module initialization and general interrupts

by Sergiy Bogdancev

USB module initialization and general interrupts

PartnerTech CD-7220 POS Customer Display - .NET Class

by Mike Meinz

PartnerTech provides a 32-bit DLL and a 64-bit DLL for communicating with the CD-7220 Series Customer Display in true USB mode. This tip demonstrates a .NET class that can be used to provide an easy way to access the PartnerTech-provided 32-bit DLL.

USB Device Not Recognised Pop-up

by thatraja

Found these linksTroubleshooting: USB Device Not Recognized[^]From Link1[^]:Cause #1: Outdated Device DriverCause #2: USB Device shares the same drive letter as another device already plugged inCause #3: All USB devices suddenly stop workingCause #4: Damaged USB PortCause #5:...

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Preventing viruses from entering a USB drive in Windows

22 Oct 2012 by Praveen Kullu

Preventing viruses in a USB drive in Windows

Getting video stream from USB web-camera on Arduino Due - Part 4: USB module initialization and general interrupts

7 Apr 2015 by Sergiy Bogdancev

USB module initialization and general interrupts

Working with USB Devices

30 May 2012 by El_Codero

Hi,a symbolic link is a link to a folder/directory within your file system (NTFS,FAT32,ext2,3, ...).So in this case the symbolic link to your device could be to i.e. I:\ (the device letter of your USB Mass Storage Device).To Device ID's and PNP-ID's: All Plug n' Play (so...PNP)...

USB Device simulation c#, c++

5 Jun 2012 by TRK3

There are a number of places the error might be occurring, and I suspect that a "USB Device simulation" won't actually help you find them.Here's my candidates for the problem source (most likely first):1. The device you are controlling has a bug in it's software/firmware that is timing...

How to interface VB.Net Application with USB Port

19 May 2011 by OriginalGriff

You treate the USB port as it is was a standard serial port. Create an instance of the SerialPort class[^], and handle the incoming data: SerialPort sensor = new SerialPort("COM6"); sensor.BaudRate = 9600; sensor.Parity = Parity.None; sensor.StopBits =...

USB interfacing in C++

1 Nov 2011 by André Kraak

Once the converter is installed properly you can handle it as a normal serial port.CP has many articles on the subject, here are a few: Win32 SDK Serial Comm Made Easy[^] CSerialIO - A Useful and Simple Serial Communication Class[^] Serial library for C++[^]

Re-Scanning USB Devices after disabling/enabling USB-Block-By-Registry

3 Apr 2012 by El_Codero

Hi,Disabli...

PartnerTech CD-7220 POS Customer Display - .NET Class

24 Sep 2013 by Mike Meinz

PartnerTech provides a 32-bit DLL and a 64-bit DLL for communicating with the CD-7220 Series Customer Display in true USB mode. This tip demonstrates a .NET class that can be used to provide an easy way to access the PartnerTech-provided 32-bit DLL.

How make autorun from usb in C#

7 Apr 2023 by OriginalGriff

If you are trying to make an app autorun when a USB containing it is inserted, that is no longer possible for security reasons - it was disabled in Windows 7 and is very unlikely to be re-enabled. It was deliberately disabled to curtail the...

Programmatically changing a COM port number

2 Feb 2011 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Well, first and best advice would be to trash your "commercial application" and blacklist the company which develop this stuff :). Well, beyond the jokes...If you cannot afford that step, there is a class of utilities called "COM Port Redirector"; it will do the trick....

Want to make a program active only when a USB stick is plugged in..

24 Mar 2011 by Eduard Keilholz

Hey!There are a couple of solutions available to accomplish that. If you want a real secure solution, you'll need to have USB-Dongles with a public & private key pair. You may for example use this[^] hasp.If you don't want a real secure solution you can develop something yourself (for...

Want to make a program active only when a USB stick is plugged in..

24 Mar 2011 by #realJSOP

Personally, I would never use a piece of software that required a dongle be plugged in so that it would run. You'd be better off having it verify itself over the internet, which could be easily configured to allow the software to run a certain number of times without an internet connection...

USB Sniffer protocol

31 May 2011 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Did you see this Open Source product: http://sourceforge.net/projects/usbsnoop/[^]?—SA

UsbLibDotNet examples not working

24 Dec 2011 by Member 8066111

HiRun Test_Info.exe which is under prog files/Libusb...That will give an output. Find vendorid and product id. Those for my device wereVendorID:0x04D8 ProductID:0xFEAA. Convert them to decimal and replace those '1234's with these values. Hope it'll work

How can i get the details such asTotal Pages Jammed,Model ,BlackSupply ,etc from USB Printer?

10 Aug 2012 by Kenneth Haugland

The main problem with your question is I dont think we can answer it. Printers have some default settings that can be set via the .NET assembelies:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/5ekk3hse[^]Your printer my store additional properties not required by the default printer class, and...

USB driver installation breaks other driver's functionality

26 Feb 2014 by lukeer

Hi experts,the installation of my Windows Forms application wreaks havoc on the USB subsystem. Any USB device plugged in the machine won't function unless it has already been plugged into that very USB port at a time before my software was installed.Has anyone had such behaviour before?...

How to Search for USB device events

26 Mar 2014 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Please see this CodeProject article: Detecting Hardware Insertion and/or Removal[^].To use it with C#, you still need to have some native code using (maybe just wrappers for the call of raw Windows API) and would need to use...

Can someone break down how to detect usb

12 Oct 2015 by Abhinav S

TryA USB Library to Detect USB Devices[^]Detecting USB Insertion/Removal in C# .Net 4.0[^]

Disable USB ports completely

21 Mar 2016 by Jochen Arndt

You can use the Windows Device Console (Devcon.exe) - Windows 10 hardware dev[^] utility (source code available).There are examples to disable USB devices: Device Console (DevCon.exe) Examples - Windows 10 hardware dev[^]. When disabling the internal USB root hubs, no devices can be connected.

Show notification in server when client use usb port

5 Apr 2017 by Jochen Arndt

That is not possible. The software running on your web server has no access to the client system. You would have to execute code on the client site. But even that is not possible because client site software running in a web browser has no access to the USB ports for security reasons.

communicating with at90usb1287 by usb port using vc# 2008

19 Oct 2010 by JF2015

Hi,to communicate with the AVR, you will need the AtUsbHid.dll provided by Atmel. You should contact them or try to get the dll from their website. I'm pretty sure they also have some examples (at least for basic stuff as connecting to the controller)

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Converting a program from Parallel port to USB

1 Jan 2011 by Member 139650

Hi,Since more newer PC´s have no Parallel Port and Serial Port anymore, i need to rewrite a 10 year old MS Visual-C++ program for USB access.First problem: Visual C++ 6.0 doesn´t support serial ports greater than 5.On all laptops we cannot use serial ports 3 to 10 ( already occupied...

unresolved link with VC++ and libusb

13 Feb 2011 by xJorDyx

I've been trying all day now to use libusb.lib within a visual studio 2008 project and cannot get it to work in any way.I've created a clr console application, added libusb.lib to linker->input->additional dependencies. (The lib is in the correct directory too)I have placed the usb.h...

Fingerprint Recognition Apps

18 Mar 2011 by Khan Tanveer Alam

Dear Brothers and SistersI have a USB Finger Print Device (UDR-200B), I am trying to develop an application by using VB.Net and SQL server to record finger print of a user and verified user based on stored finger print in database.I stuck with it since last few weeks, is there any one...

USB high level format

19 Mar 2011 by Henry Minute

Why are you asking here?The best resource for finding open-source software is an internet search engine.Have you searched for 7 level formatting or 35 level formatting?I suspect that you have and couldn't find anything. That's because, AFAIK there's no such animal. I am of course...

How to interface VB.Net Application with USB Port

9 May 2022 by Preetinder

Hello,I want to develop an application in VB.Net that captures data (temperature and pressure) using USB port and displays the values on Screen. The values may then be used to generate Graphs or for controlling other devices, again using USB Port.However, I have not found any method in...

How to add usblibrary dll

1 Jun 2011 by Rob Branaghan

Try this http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sharpusblib/[^]Sounds like the developer needed something, so wrote it himself!

USB in C++.Need help to find free space,manufacturer name

21 Jun 2011 by OlegKrivtsov

You can try Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). It can tell you all required info about any device in your system. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394558(v=vs.85).aspx[^]

Impossible to access a linux formatted flash disk from windows, needed to reformat it...

18 Jul 2011 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

This is all about partitioning and formatting partitions the way readable with both systems. I would recommend to do it with Linux, not with Windows, as Linux partition managers are more flexible and can access all the file systems accessible by Windows, but not the other way around.When you...

USB Device Not Recognised Pop-up

20 Nov 2011 by thatraja

Found these linksTroubleshooting: USB Device Not Recognized[^]From Link1[^]:Cause #1: Outdated Device DriverCause #2: USB Device shares the same drive letter as another device already plugged inCause #3: All USB devices suddenly stop workingCause #4: Damaged USB PortCause #5:...

Communicating with a device by windows messaging through USB in C# WPF

28 Nov 2011 by Member 8002808

Hello everyoneI am trying to communicate with a device by using windows messaging and through a USB port. I will be writing the code in C# and WPF. The device has a an interface board that uses a Cypress USB driver chip (CY7C6###). I have installed their generic drives and change the PID...

DLL Implementation in C# WPF

11 May 2012 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

It looks like this is not a .NET assembly but a native (unmanaged) DLL. There are no "steps" to help you.You need to have profiles of all functions and learn P/Invoke. Start from here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P/Invoke[^],http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Aa712982[^].Read...

Communicating with a device by windows messaging through USB in C# WPF

12 Dec 2011 by Viktor Signaievskyi

Hi,Could you tell us the aim you want to connect Cypress to PC? Is this something like storage device or the kind of ADC? I mean do you have some requirements or requests to the target device?As I know CY7C6### is a microprocessor, so you need to write the software, compile and flash the...

USB mass storage - the number of luns.

25 Dec 2011 by Dalek Dave

Does this help?[^]

HID Controller in VB.Net

3 Feb 2012 by Dave Kreskowiak

Your question is so vauge and generic, the only answer you're going to get is this[^].

usb port , who i can define the com in mi port?

8 Feb 2012 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Even though the question is absolutely not clear, I don't think is makes any sense. COM port and the USB are very different things with very different functionality. Unlike COM, USB is not a port but a bus, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB[^].—SA

run VS OR any .net ide from an usb

11 May 2012 by Mehdi Gholam

Try using SharpDevelop http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/Default.aspx[^] it will xcopy deploy.

How to find out when something is connected to my USB port

24 May 2012 by rasmiranjanbabu

Hello friends,I use CODE::BLOCKS in Windows vista.I would like to write a program on USB, that, when a pen drive or something is connected to the USB port my program should warn me that something is connected.I would like to write the same in C or C++ language.Please provide me some...

Working with USB Devices

30 May 2012 by nanomass

Hi, I am currently trying to build an application that would program a device through DFU. I have an application programming interface with all the functions and methods I need, my problem is that the API is in C++, I am trying to translate it to C# but I am having a hard time understanding...

Checking whether usbser.sys is still working/polling a COM port/CDC device

6 Jun 2012 by idle63

Hello allIs it possible to check programmatically whether usbser.sys does still poll a specific COM port where a USB device using CDC (Communication Device Class) is connected? If yes any idea how to do that?By the way the question is to make some test code to verify whether there is a...

Checking whether usbser.sys is still working/polling a COM port/CDC device

6 Jun 2012 by Dave Kreskowiak

Not that I know of, no. I don't know of an interface exposed by it that will let you query that information.

FTDI USB device event in Windows 32/64 bit

10 Jun 2012 by Artem Verbuk

Hi everyone.I am developing some application that uses device, with FTDI chip on board, connected to PC through USB. Application uses ft2xx.dll. It will be very nice If my application would be able to recognize device removal and insertion. I can do it with some timer, that constantly tries...

FTDI USB device event in Windows 32/64 bit

13 Jun 2012 by El_Codero

Hi,please read my solution some time ago, a near similar question:Working with USB Devices[^]Especially following great CP-Article:A USB Library to Detect USB Devices[^]In addition there must be some hardware-id which is stored/recognized/integrated drivers of win (sometimes...

Is there a way to enable/disable a Windows 7 User Account with a USB Pendrive?

14 Sep 2012 by Zoltán Zörgő

1+2A) Every account that is not granted the interactive logon will be hidden from logon screen.1+2B) There is a registry setting you can also use: http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to-create-hidden-user-account-hide-user-account-from-welcome-screen-in-windows/[^]0) You can use any user...

Is there a way to enable/disable a Windows 7 User Account with a USB Pendrive?

19 Sep 2012 by djdynamix

I'd like to thank everyone who gave their time and thought to this, especially ledtech3, who probably now has less hair than when we started, thanks to trying to sort out the API calls on MSDN!I have now worked out a solution. It wasn't the one I'd originally intended, but in many ways it...

reading and writing data to USB port in mfc vc++

20 Sep 2012 by CPallini

First of all, sleep (it helps keeping you healthy).Using virtual serial port on USB is often fine. If you need to write data on a pen drive the I believe the easier way is (by far) using OS file functions (you only need to detect when the pen drive is plugged in, using, for instance...

Using WDK(Window Driver Kit) for USB Communication support

8 Oct 2012 by Maxim Kartavenkov

Sorry, I just proper review your code - some bugs in there.See how it should be:1. Call SetupDiGetClassDevs to create enumeration list with the class guid and device flags - you doing that properly. Example:HDEVINFO hDeviceList = SetupDiGetClassDevs (&KSCATEGORY_TOPOLOGY,NULL, NULL,...

Identifyable USB Storage Devices

25 Oct 2012 by Bernhard Hiller

Not fully safe, but generally good enough:Get the DeviceModelManagementObjectSearcher mos = new ManagementObjectSearcher("select model from Win32_DiskDrive");encrypt that value and store it in a Resource file.When you run your program, just check that a disk with an acceptable name is...

Disable an entire model of Logitech C920 cameras

19 Feb 2013 by Member 9848511

Hi,I want to disable a USB device completely. I DO NOT want to disable the port but I should be able to disable a particular model , when connected to my system. In my case, I am trying to disable LOGITECH C920 cameras. I tried using devcon to achieve this, but I was only able to disable the...

Turn on and off Leds

2 Aug 2013 by Ron Beyer

Alright, I'll expand on ThePhantomUpvoter's message, mostly because I dabble in embedded electronics...Serial ports work by bringing a signal high or low. There are a couple signals like DTR and RTS that can be easily controlled through code, and made to stay high or low. These aren't...

Turn on and off Leds

2 Aug 2013 by CPallini

In my opinion, you should use a microcontroller to switch ON/OFF the LEDs (or control other hardware). In turn your laptop would communicate with the microcontroller (directly via USB or by means of a virtual COM on the USB).The direct connection of the LEDs (or other hardware) may (if wrong)...

How to read data from usb in Android by programmatically?

4 Aug 2013 by Sudhakar Shinde

Since USB device is a serial converter, the android tablet has to act as a USB host. This feature is available since Android 3.1. The API documentation is available on the [android developer page] and includes code examples.

[c#] get the serial number from a usb key

30 Aug 2013 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Please see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/hh998535.aspx[^].—SA

USB driver installation breaks other driver's functionality

27 Feb 2014 by S Houghtelin

You may find this useful, I did when I needed to do silent install for our USB connected device.Driver Package Installer (DPInst)[^]I suggested reading through the documentation though. But it works.Good luck.

USB driver installation breaks other driver's functionality

27 Feb 2014 by lukeer

Stupid me!To write my changes to the registry, I use this method [DllImport("advapi32.dll", SetLastError = true)] static extern uint RegSetValueEx( int hKey, [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStr)] String lpValueName, int...

How to Search for USB device events

27 Mar 2014 by GeoNav

Hi all, Thanks for the advises. One option I found for getting the list of USB devices connected and removed in the past is from the Windows Event Log. In System Log, under EventID 20001, the detection of USB Devices are available. Please refer Yogesh Khatri ...

What's wrong with "invalid parameters" from insmod command?

15 Jan 2015 by Stan Huang

There may be lots of causes for such bug. In my case, it happened several times and I worked out it by re-building the driver in the development environment where the underlying image was built. That is, the drivers must be built at the same development environment as the kernel image. A little...

USB Driver pre-installation

20 Feb 2015 by E.F. Nijboer

Try calling something like this:RUNDLL32.EXE SETUPAPI.DLL,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132 path-to-inf\infname.infCheck this link for more info:https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff557251%28v=vs.85%29.aspx[^]Good luck!

Detect any usb insert(portable devices)

28 Sep 2015 by Maciej Los

Google is your Friend! Here is a set of links:http://www.developerfusion.com/article/4392/deviceiocontrol-usb-using-managed-c-c/5/[^]https://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/articles/Is-that-you-Writing-Better-Software-for-Cool-USB-Hardware[^]http://www.beyondlogic.org/usbnutshell/usb5.shtml[^]

How to adapt USB serial communication to RS232 to USB serial port communication.

28 Sep 2015 by George Jonsson

For your purpose I would discard the code you found "somewhere on the net" and take a look at this article.Serial Comms in C# for Beginners[^]As you have a USB to RS232 converter it will enumerate as one or more Virtual COM Ports (VCP).In most ways this is the same as connecting to a...

Creation of USB Locker to make USB protected with a password

29 Sep 2015 by Dave Kreskowiak

One problem you're going to run into is that any C# app requires the .NET Framework to be installed on the machine before you can run the app. If the framework is not installed your code doesn't run.The only way you're going to "protect" the contents of the drive with a password is if all...

Can we change a drive/removable drive permission level?

4 Oct 2015 by Shahzad Mirza

I want to change permission level of the removable drive(USB) to be readonly for everyone and full control to the current user of the windows. There are many tutorials available on internet for changing of file, folder, directory,permission level. But i could not find any source to change a...

Can we change a drive/removable drive permission level?

4 Oct 2015 by Shahzad Mirza

I just solve my question just using this Link and including this namespace System.Security.Principal.I just used below code to change permissions on the root folder (e.g. "G:\")DirectorySecurity sec = Directory.GetAccessControl(path);// Using this instead of the "Everyone" string...

Communicating with Flash Drive Programmatically

9 Oct 2015 by Patrice T

The answer is NO you can't.Usual flash drives are passive devices. This imply that you can't enforce an execute as you plug it, and you can't restrict access.the only hope is to store only encrypted files on the drive.Otherwise, you must use an active device. That means that the drive...

Disable USB ports completely

21 Mar 2016 by CHill60

Quote:Use Device Manager to disable and re-enable all the USB controllershttps://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/817900[^]

How do I get usb serial number C# in XP

17 Aug 2016 by Maciej Los

I'd suggest to start here: How USB Devices are Assigned Container IDs[^]In WinXP you have to use WMI: Retrieve Hardware Identifiers with WMI and C#[^]. To get the list of USB devices, you have to loop through the collection of Win32_USBControllerDeviceFor further information, please...

How can I achieve a USB communication between a WPF application and an evaluation board?

9 Nov 2016 by debasish mishra

Some pointers.Youtube video.net Micro Framework implementationWPF you can always know how to do or what to do but communication should work out by implementating progamming languages like c#

How to unplug/plug usb using C#

4 Dec 2016 by OriginalGriff

This looks very like this question: How to restart usb ports useing C#?[^] which you already know, as you commented on it five minutes before you posted this.Don't duplicate questions: it wastes time, effort and work.Why do I get the feeling that at least one of these accounts is a sock...

USB communication through windows application with a custom USB (PIC32MZ2048EFG100) using winusb.sys

20 Mar 2018 by Jochen Arndt

Have a look at CodePlex Archive: WinUsbNet[^]: Quote: WinUsbNet: A managed interface to WinUSB.sys The WinUsbNet class library gives .NET managed code direct access to USB devices through WinUSB, the generic USB device driver included with Windows. The project also includes tools to create &...

Help, I have messed up my USB! ! !

15 May 2018 by phil.o

Most probably because ISO9660 is a file-system format for CDROMs, which does not fit for USB drives. You should maybe look at How to mount an USB drive in Linux[^].

Duplicate device change event when USB arrived or removed

21 Oct 2019 by Richard MacCutchan

Please post your question in the forum at the end of the article so the author may help you.

Any link for driver EPSONTM-P2.01 for win7 64bit

7 Oct 2021 by User 9916080

This maybe what you are looking for. From Google: Epson TM-T88III Drivers[^]

How make autorun from usb in C#

6 Apr 2023 by Graeme_Grant

What you are trying to do is not unique. The best place to start is here: How make autorun from usb in c# - Google Search[^] ChatGPT[^] also has an interesting response when you ask it: How make autorun from usb in c#. The response given...

Sewoo printer showing up as unspecified device windows 10

13 Apr 2023 by OriginalGriff

This is not a Windows (or Sewoo) tech support site: we are here for software development problems and support. You need to contact the printer manufacturers via their tech support - they will be familiar with their product and brand (which I for...

How to read/write data to serial port in xamarin.android ?

11 Nov 2017 by Richard MacCutchan

OTG Android Xamarin C - Google Search[^].

Prevent user to copy files to USB disk

15 May 2010 by haoer715

hi!I'm a student and I am learning about hooks recently. My teacher asked me to write a program to prevent copying data from PC to a USB disk with hooks. I really don't know how to do this. Who can give me some code (VC++) to study? Thanks a lot!!!