How to disconnect a Bluetooth (not LE) device from windows computer in UWP/.NetCore/etc.?

Question

I have a Bluetooth device connected to my computer. The following is the state of the device in Bluetooth & Other Devices list. I want to disconnect it from the computer using any API of desktop/UWP app (e.g., IOCTL etc.).

So I want to make it to the following state programmatically:

How can I do that?

Answer 1

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This is a summary for the question so that other people who are facing the same issue could check. A workaround is to use the IOCTL_BTH_DISCONNECT_DEVICE IOCTL. It's a win32 API comes from bthioctl.h. This API could disconnect the Bluetooth device from the computer.

Thank you.

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