Programatically enable & disable USB drives using C#.NET

As i understand it you cannot directly communicate to the USB ports since they are managed by the operating system. You must first have device drivers installed for that device which will load when you connect it. You can then detect the device and communicate through the said wrapper drivers. (I am probably wrong, but i dont think it will be easy)

There is a page on MSDN channel 9 regarding C# and low level device communication thorugh unmanaged C# here:

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=26885

Which mentions this book:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0965081958/qid=1098901838/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/104-3927794-0255917?n=507846&s=books&v=glance

This article:

http://www.programmersheaven.com/search/LinkDetail.asp?Typ=2&ID=11340

And the most notable one, a USB library for C#

http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SharpUSBLib/default.aspx

Hope this helps,

Darren