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Sérgio Nader
Sérgio Nader

Reputation: 187

C# - Event is not detected on Windows XP - USB drive

I´m new to C# -- started three days ago because of an especific need regarding usb drives. Reading here and there I could have the following code to work. What I want is to know when an user inserts a pendrive in the usb port.

The only problem is the that on XP32 (the only XP I tested) the event will never be detected. On Windows 7 it runs perfectly. 

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Management;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Threading;
using System.IO;
using Microsoft.Win32;
using System.Security.Permissions;

namespace X
{
    class Program
    {

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {    
            ManagementEventWatcher watcher = new ManagementEventWatcher();
            WqlEventQuery query = new WqlEventQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_VolumeChangeEvent WHERE EventType = 2");
            watcher.Query = query;
            watcher.Start();
            watcher.WaitForNextEvent();
         // DO something if a pen drive (or any storage device) is inserted.
         // Works fine on Windows 7
         // XP will ignore the event... 
        }
    }
}

Any suggestions will be very welcome!

Regards,

Sergio

Upvotes: 1

Views: 725

Answers (1)

Paul Ruane
Paul Ruane

Reputation: 38590

Looks like you need XP service pack 3 for it to work (SP2 on x64).

Upvotes: 1

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