WMI: Get USB device description on insertion

Question

How can I get a device Id and other description on insertion of USB device? I\'ve found an example how to get notified about USB device insertion/removal. But how to get dev

Answer 1

Complete new answer according to your updated answer. You may check für any connected USB device:

        ManagementScope sc =
            new ManagementScope(@"\\YOURCOMPUTERNAME\root\cimv2");

        ObjectQuery query =
            new ObjectQuery("Select * from Win32_USBHub");

        ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher(sc, query);
        ManagementObjectCollection result = searcher.Get();

        foreach (ManagementObject obj in result)
        {
            if (obj["Description"] != null) Console.WriteLine("Description:\t" + obj["Description"].ToString());
            if (obj["DeviceID"] != null) Console.WriteLine("DeviceID:\t" + obj["DeviceID"].ToString());
            if (obj["PNPDeviceID"] != null) Console.WriteLine("PNPDeviceID:\t" + obj["PNPDeviceID"].ToString());
        }

(see MSDN WMI tasks examples) for this)

or have a look into any COM ConnectedDevice

        ManagementScope sc =
            new ManagementScope(@"\\YOURCOMPUTERNAME\root\cimv2");
        ObjectQuery query =
            new ObjectQuery("Select * from Win32_SerialPort");

        searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher(sc, query);
        result = searcher.Get();

        foreach (ManagementObject obj in result)
        {
            if (obj["Caption"] != null) Console.WriteLine("Caption:\t" + obj["Description"].ToString());
            if (obj["Description"] != null) Console.WriteLine("Description:\t" + obj["DeviceID"].ToString());
            if (obj["DeviceID"] != null) Console.WriteLine("DeviceID:\t" + obj["PNPDeviceID"].ToString());
        }

(see ActiveX Experts for further details on this)