Detecting Inserted USB Drive - Windows Service
I am trying to detect a USB disk inserted into a windows service, I did it like a normal windows application. The problem is the following code doesn't work for volumes.
Registering device notification:
DEV_BROADCAST_DEVICEINTERFACE notificationFilter;
HDEVNOTIFY hDeviceNotify = NULL;
::ZeroMemory(¬ificationFilter, sizeof(notificationFilter));
notificationFilter.dbcc_size = sizeof(DEV_BROADCAST_DEVICEINTERFACE);
notificationFilter.dbcc_devicetype = DBT_DEVTYP_DEVICEINTERFACE;
notificationFilter.dbcc_classguid = ::GUID_DEVINTERFACE_VOLUME;
hDeviceNotify = ::RegisterDeviceNotification(g_serviceStatusHandle, ¬ificationFilter, DEVICE_NOTIFY_SERVICE_HANDLE);
Code from ServiceControlHandlerEx function:
case SERVICE_CONTROL_DEVICEEVENT:
PDEV_BROADCAST_HDR pBroadcastHdr = (PDEV_BROADCAST_HDR)lpEventData;
switch (dwEventType)
{
case DBT_DEVICEARRIVAL:
::MessageBox(NULL, "A Device has been plugged in.", "Pounce", MB_OK | MB_ICONINFORMATION);
switch (pBroadcastHdr->dbch_devicetype)
{
case DBT_DEVTYP_DEVICEINTERFACE:
PDEV_BROADCAST_DEVICEINTERFACE pDevInt = (PDEV_BROADCAST_DEVICEINTERFACE)pBroadcastHdr;
if (::IsEqualGUID(pDevInt->dbcc_classguid, GUID_DEVINTERFACE_VOLUME))
{
PDEV_BROADCAST_VOLUME pVol = (PDEV_BROADCAST_VOLUME)pDevInt;
char szMsg[80];
char cDriveLetter = ::GetDriveLetter(pVol->dbcv_unitmask);
::wsprintfA(szMsg, "USB disk drive with the drive letter '%c:' has been inserted.", cDriveLetter);
::MessageBoxA(NULL, szMsg, "Pounce", MB_OK | MB_ICONINFORMATION);
}
}
return NO_ERROR;
}
In a Windows application, I can get DBT_DEVTYP_VOLUME in dbch_devicetype, however this is not in the Windows Service implementation. Has anyone seen or heard of a solution to this problem without the obvious rewriting as a Windows application?
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Windows 7 supports "running services". If you want to start your service, bypass in a sleep loop, and react whenever something is connected, I think you'd be better off (assuming Windows 7 option) happens with the service start trigger, where the operating system starts the service when USB -the device is connected. (There are other triggers, but you mentioned that.)
The XP2Win7 sample application ( http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/XP2Win7 ) has this functionality enabled. It comes with complete source code. Most of them are in VB and C #, but the startup part is included in (native) C ++.
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