Johanns Sani-GREGORIAN

ShellMediaChangeNotifier: Provide means of  receiving drive addition and removal notifications triggered by Windows Shell (a.k.a: Explorer). This is a not a FileSystemWatcher clone, which raises events on changes made to specific files or directories.

ShellMediaChangeNotifier class is C++/CLI (why waste time with P/Invoke); while the provided demo is in C#.

Download: ShellMediaChangeNotifier and Demo Application

How-to use:

        ShellMediaChangeNotifier _s = new ShellMediaChangeNotifier();
 
        // Assign the window handle after it's been created.
        _s.Handle = this.Handle;
        _s.Changed += new ShellMediaChangeEventHandler(OnChanged);
 
        protected override void WndProc(ref Message m) {
            ShellMediaChangeNotifier.ProcessWindowsMessages(ref _s, m);
 
            base.WndProc(ref m);
        }
 
        void OnChanged(object sender, ShellMediaChangeEventArgs e) {
            _tbEvents.Text += e.ChangeType.ToString() + " " + e.Path + "\r\n";
        }

The provided project file requires Visual Studio 2005 (with Visual C++ and C# installed), and Windows SDK (used Windows 2003 and Vista SDKs). This code has been tested on Windows XP, 2003, and Vista.

Johan