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

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!