Re: Enumerating USB Ports in a PC and recognizing the connected device

From:
"AliR \(VC++ MVP\)" <AliR@online.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:07:02 -0500
Message-ID:
<Vv3Fl.14757$pr6.14674@flpi149.ffdc.sbc.com>
This comes with the DDK package. See if it helps:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd163454.aspx

AliR.

"Sujay Ghosh" <SujayGhosh@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:16A9D5A4-1AED-498D-AE21-2BE33A7A9FBD@microsoft.com...

Hi ,

Env : Windows XP Pro / SP3
         Visual Studio 6.0

I am NOT using Windows DDK .

I need to do the following :
1) Enumerate USB ports
2) Find the freindly name of the device attached with it . For example if
I
have Nokia data cable connected in my USB port , the freindly name of the
data cable should be displayed ...

Please find my code below :-

GUID guid = GUID_DEVCLASS_USB ;

SP_DEVICE_INTERFACE_DATA interfaceData;
ZeroMemory(&interfaceData, sizeof(interfaceData));
interfaceData.cbSize = sizeof(interfaceData);

SP_DEVINFO_DATA devInfoData;
ZeroMemory(&devInfoData, sizeof(devInfoData));
devInfoData.cbSize = sizeof(devInfoData);

HDEVINFO devInfo;
devInfo = SetupDiGetClassDevs( &guid ,
NULL,
NULL,
DIGCF_PRESENT | DIGCF_DEVICEINTERFACE ) ;

TCHAR szBuf[100];

BOOL retval = false;
int nDevices = 0;

do {
memset(&devInfoData,0,sizeof(devInfoData));
devInfoData.cbSize = sizeof(devInfoData);

if ((retval=SetupDiEnumDeviceInfo(devInfo,nDevices,&devInfoData))!=FALSE)
{

if (SetupDiGetDeviceRegistryProperty(
devInfo,
&devInfoData,
SPDRP_FRIENDLYNAME,
NULL,
(PBYTE)szBuf,
sizeof(szBuf),
NULL))
m_PortName.AddString(szBuf);

nDevices++;
}
}
while (retval != FALSE);

Unfortunately the USB ports are not being displayed

Please help .

Thanks in advance .

Sujay

--
Sujay Ghosh
Bangalore, INDIA

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Sujay Ghosh
Bangalore, INDIA

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