No way to send/receive APDU to SmartCard Reader from W8.1?

Question

Hi everybody,
with Windows Phone 8.1 you have the SmartCardConnection class through which you can send APDU to a smartcard (see below)
private async Task sendApduToReader()
string selector = SmartCardReader.GetDeviceSelector(SmartCardReaderKind.Generic);
DeviceInformationCollection devices = await DeviceInformation.FindAllAsync(selector);
if (devices != null && devices.Count != 0)
SmartCardReader reader = await SmartCardReader.FromIdAsync(devices.First().Id);
IReadOnlyList<SmartCard> cards = await reader.FindAllCardsAsync();
if (cards != null && cards.Count != 0)
SmartCard card = cards.First();
//Here in W8.1 there is no ConnectAsync method and no SmartCardConnection class.
SmartCardConnection connection = await card.ConnectAsync(); var responseBuf = await connection.TransmitAsync(SOMEDATA);
In Windows 8.1 API there is no such class, so there is no way to send APDU to the smartcard.
Is there any workaround?
Many Thanks!

Answer 1

Oops, sorry, misunderstand your previous question :)
Yes, the API only works on Windows Phone 8.1 but not work on Windows Store App, and there seems no equivalent method that can do it. 
I also found some comments from:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2013/2-041#c635084018346669735, only Win32 applications can send APDU commends to SmartCardDevice.
On the other side, if we want to make things ready, we need to create our own wrapper, I found an interesting blog that you can follow:
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/540839/Using-Smart-cards-with-a-Windows-Store-App
Hope helps.
--James
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