Detecting USB drive insertion and removal using wi

Question

Looking into possibility of making an USB distributed application
that will autostart on insertion of an USB stick and shutdown when removing the stick

Will use .Net and C#.
Looking for suggestion how to approach this using C#?

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Update: Two possible solutions implementing this as a service.
- override WndProc
or
- using WMI query with ManagementEventWatcher

Answer 1

Try WM_CHANGEDEVICE handling.

Answer 2

Adding to VitalyB's post.

To raise an event where ANY USB device is inserted, use the following:

var watcher = new ManagementEventWatcher();
var query = new WqlEventQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_DeviceChangeEvent WHERE EventType = 2");
watcher.EventArrived += new EventArrivedEventHandler(watcher_EventArrived);
watcher.Query = query;
watcher.Start();

This will raise an event whenever a USB device is plugged. It even works with a National Instruments DAQ that I'm trying to auto-detect.