.NET - Diving into System Programming - Part 2

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Introduction

In Part 1, I have demonstrated how to enumerate device classes. Now let us see how to enumerate devices of the class.

Device enumeration

First of all, let us look again at the picture with Device Manager information. It is easy - Device Manager enumerate devices when we expand the tree for device class.

The idea of device enumeration is not difficult for understanding:

• Get class Guid using device class name (SetupDiClassGuidsFromNameA function)
• Get device info set for device class (SetupDiGetClassDevsA function)
• Get device info data for every device (SetupDiGetClassDevsA function, second parameters for this function is sequential device index in the device class, so call this function in circle with device index = 0, 1, etc.).
• Get device name from Registry via SetupDiGetDeviceRegistryPropertyA function.

Below you see code in C# that will enumerate devices for selected device class for PC.

using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

namespace DevInfo
{

    class DeviceInfo
    {

        public const int DIGCF_PRESENT    = (0x00000002);
        public const int MAX_DEV_LEN = 1000;
        public const int SPDRP_FRIENDLYNAME = (0x0000000C);  
          // FriendlyName (R/W)
        public const int SPDRP_DEVICEDESC = (0x00000000);    
          // DeviceDesc (R/W)

        [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)]
            public class SP_DEVINFO_DATA
                {
                 public int cbSize;
                 public Guid  ClassGuid;
                 public int DevInst;    // DEVINST handle
                 public ulong Reserved;
                };

        [DllImport("setupapi.dll")]//
        public static extern Boolean
          SetupDiClassGuidsFromNameA(string ClassN, ref Guid guids, 
            UInt32 ClassNameSize, ref UInt32 ReqSize);

        [DllImport("setupapi.dll")]
        public static extern IntPtr                //result HDEVINFO
          SetupDiGetClassDevsA(ref Guid ClassGuid, UInt32 Enumerator,
            IntPtr     hwndParent,  UInt32 Flags);

        [DllImport("setupapi.dll")]
        public static extern Boolean
          SetupDiEnumDeviceInfo(IntPtr DeviceInfoSet, UInt32 MemberIndex,
            SP_DEVINFO_DATA     DeviceInfoData);

        [DllImport("setupapi.dll")]
        public static extern Boolean
          SetupDiDestroyDeviceInfoList(IntPtr DeviceInfoSet);

        [DllImport("setupapi.dll")]
        public static extern Boolean
          SetupDiGetDeviceRegistryPropertyA(IntPtr DeviceInfoSet,
          SP_DEVINFO_DATA     DeviceInfoData, UInt32 Property,
          UInt32   PropertyRegDataType, StringBuilder  PropertyBuffer,
          UInt32 PropertyBufferSize, IntPtr RequiredSize);



        public static int EnumerateDevices(UInt32 DeviceIndex, 
                string ClassName,
                StringBuilder DeviceName)
        {
         UInt32 RequiredSize = 0;
         Guid guid=Guid.Empty;
         Guid[] guids=new Guid[1];
         IntPtr NewDeviceInfoSet;
         SP_DEVINFO_DATA DeviceInfoData= new SP_DEVINFO_DATA();


         bool res=SetupDiClassGuidsFromNameA(ClassName,
                    ref guids[0],RequiredSize,
                    ref RequiredSize);

         if(RequiredSize==0)
               {
                //incorrect class name:
                DeviceName=new StringBuilder("");
                return -2;
               }

         if(!res)
          {
           guids=new Guid[RequiredSize];
           res=SetupDiClassGuidsFromNameA(ClassName,ref guids[0],RequiredSize,
                ref RequiredSize);

           if(!res || RequiredSize==0)
               {
           //incorrect class name:
                DeviceName=new StringBuilder("");
                return -2;
               }
          }

         //get device info set for our device class
         NewDeviceInfoSet=SetupDiGetClassDevsA(ref guids[0],0,IntPtr.Zero,
                     DIGCF_PRESENT);
         if( NewDeviceInfoSet.ToInt32() == -1 )
         if(!res)
               {
          //device information is unavailable:
                DeviceName=new StringBuilder("");
                return -3;
               }

            DeviceInfoData.cbSize = 28;
            //is devices exist for class
            DeviceInfoData.DevInst=0;
            DeviceInfoData.ClassGuid=System.Guid.Empty;
            DeviceInfoData.Reserved=0;

            res=SetupDiEnumDeviceInfo(NewDeviceInfoSet,
                   DeviceIndex,DeviceInfoData);
            if(!res) {
         //no such device:
                SetupDiDestroyDeviceInfoList(NewDeviceInfoSet);
                DeviceName=new StringBuilder("");
                return -1;
            }



        DeviceName.Capacity=MAX_DEV_LEN;
        if(!SetupDiGetDeviceRegistryPropertyA(NewDeviceInfoSet,
          DeviceInfoData,
        SPDRP_FRIENDLYNAME,0,DeviceName,MAX_DEV_LEN,IntPtr.Zero) )
        {
         res = SetupDiGetDeviceRegistryPropertyA(NewDeviceInfoSet,
          DeviceInfoData,SPDRP_DEVICEDESC,0,DeviceName,MAX_DEV_LEN, 
            IntPtr.Zero);
         if(!res){
         //incorrect device name:
                SetupDiDestroyDeviceInfoList(NewDeviceInfoSet);
                DeviceName=new StringBuilder("");
                return -4;
            }
        }
         return 0;
        }

        [STAThread]
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
         StringBuilder devices=new StringBuilder("");
         UInt32 Index=0;
         int result=0;

         if(args.Length != 1)
          {
            Console.WriteLine("command line format:");
            Console.WriteLine("DevInfo <CLASSNAME>");
            return;
          }

         while(true)
          {
            result=EnumerateDevices(Index, args[0], devices);
            Index++;
            if(result == -2)
                    {
                     Console.WriteLine("Incorrect name of Class = {0}",
                       args[0]);
                     break;
                    }
            if(result == -1)break;
            if(result == 0)Console.WriteLine("Device{0} is {1}", 
              Index, devices);
        }

        }
    }
}

The command line for this console application - DevInfo classname

classname - the name of device class. You can use application from previous article to find correct device class name. After running application you can see devices for any device class on your PC.

Summary

Now we can join code from the first article and this article, add information about devices (for example, resources like IRQs, ports, etc) and put it in the Windows Forms application. But it is a subject for Part 3.

This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)