Universal Windows® Apps with XAML and C# Unleashed

Communicating with the Device

Communicating with a HID device is done with up to three kinds of reports: input reports, output reports, and feature reports.

Input Reports

Input reports contain data from the device. You can attach a handler to HidDevice’s InputReportReceived event to receive these reports. Each report is delivered as a HidInputReport object that exposes, among other things, the raw Data as an IBuffer and a numeric Id. At any time, independent of this event, you can call HidDevice’s GetInputReportAsync method with no parameters to retrieve the device’s default input report. You can also call an overload with a report ID to get a specific one.

Output Reports

Output reports are used to send data to the device. You create one with ...