What are the UWP APIs to use for accessing device driver from UWP applications ? I need to send some IOCTL command from UWP application to the driver.
Is this possible without using Win32 APIs ?
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Not sure if you can do it with UWP APIs. UWP app runs inside what is called AppContainer, with limited privileges. I suggest you using brokered windows runtime component, which eventually calls Win32 APIs to do the trick. – Jackie Feb 29 '16 at 10:17
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What are you trying to accomplish? What driver? Maybe there's another way. Have a look here as well: https://ms-iot.github.io/content/en-US/win10/samples/DeviceIoControlUwp.htm – WiredPrairie Feb 29 '16 at 18:58
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@WiredPrairie , I am trying to send data from POS UWP application to the scanner driver. – zk9099 Mar 01 '16 at 06:08
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an old question but still. The in-process Win32 counterpart (the unmanaged DLL called via P/Invoke) is restricted by the same mechanisms, unfortunately. – Eugene Mayevski 'Callback Jan 14 '20 at 19:13