How can I detect a tablet PC has connected to the PC via the USB cable?

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I want to start my application when the tablet PC has connected to the PC via the USB cable,I find some articles about detect the USB Flash Disk rather than the tablet,I know little about these technologies,Can you give me some tips or examples? I just want to detect the event that the tablet PC has connected to the PC.

Posted 25-Dec-14 2:56am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 25-Dec-14 12:17pm

Are you asking for detection on Windows side? Or on tablet side? But there is no such system as "Tablet PC". It all depends on what OS is there...
—SA

Member 11175072 25-Dec-14 23:28pm

I want to asking for detection on the Windows side,The Table PC refers to the tablet.

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PrakashCs.net · Answer 1 · 2014-12-25T18:16:00

Solution 2

go through below code provided in link[^]

and using Driveinfo you can use various properties to detect tablet PC

C#

using System.IO.DriveInfo;

 var availableDrives = DriveInfo.GetDrives()
.Where(d=> d.IsReady && d.DriveType == DriveType.Removable);

Posted 25-Dec-14 18:16pm

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Yesii · Answer 2 · 2014-12-25T16:27:00

Solution 1

In Win7? If it's the first time of this kind connection, your PC need a drive program to start your tablet PC. Under normal conditions, your OS will search and download a matched driver and you can install it. After that you can find contents of your tablet PC in your computer.

Posted 25-Dec-14 16:27pm

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Member 11175072 25-Dec-14 23:32pm

Yes,it is in Win7,I want to be notified when the tablet has connected to the PC and than I can trigger something.

[no name] 26-Dec-14 1:21am

Want your application running as long as the tablet has connected to the PC ?
You can check is there any disk inserted into when running timer background, if does, run the application. It's a thought.Only if your antivirus won't treat it as virus and kill it.

Member 11175072 29-Dec-14 8:11am

Can you give me some code?

[no name] 29-Dec-14 22:40pm

I didn't realize anything similar,but I googled sth. Hope helpful.
If you want to do something repeatedly, you should just use a loop iinside the backgroundworker DoWork() method. You can refer this to scan if your table PC has been connected.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19120914/timer-vs-repetitive-background-worker

The following is that you can set the time when to call your app:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19120914/timer-vs-repetitive-background-worker

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6292362/how-to-start-a-backgroundworker-on-a-specific-time

And the way declare background tasks declare:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/xaml/hh977049.aspx