I'm trying to make a function that detects if a usb device is connected given the devices pid and vid. I'm hoping it would look something like this, I'm just not sure how to do this in C#.
public bool IsUsbDeviceConnected(string pid, string vid)
{
//Code here
}
//using System.Management
public bool IsUsbDeviceConnected(string pid, string vid)
{
using (var searcher =
new ManagementObjectSearcher(@"Select * From Win32_USBControllerDevice"))
{
using (var collection = searcher.Get())
{
foreach (var device in collection)
{
var usbDevice = Convert.ToString(device);
if (usbDevice.Contains(pid) && usbDevice.Contains(vid))
return true;
}
}
}
return false;
}
may be something like
//import the System.Management namespace at the top in your "using" statement. Then in a method, or on a button click:
ManagementObjectCollection collection;
using (ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher("SELECT * FROM Win32_DiskDrive WHERE InterfaceType='USB'"))
collection = searcher.Get();
foreach (ManagementObject currentObject in collection)
{
ManagementObject theSerialNumberObjectQuery = new ManagementObject("Win32_PhysicalMedia.Tag='" + currentObject["DeviceID"] + "'");
MessageBox.Show(theSerialNumberObjectQuery["SerialNumber"].ToString());
}
collection.Dispose();
Using WMI