SetupAPI is a Win32API that is used for installing device drivers and in enumerating existing devices on a Windows computer.
SetupAPI is a Win32API that is used for installing device drivers and in enumerating existing devices on a Windows computer.
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Internal works of WMI?
I'm curious as to how WMI works. Particularly, I am currently using WMI to query for the physical monitors via "Select * from Win32_DesktopMonitor" as it has consistently given me the correct result across multiple platforms since I want to know…
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Find HID Devices C#
I need to connect to a USB-device connected to the computer, I have looked around a bit and found some example projects, but cant get this to work. Everything runs nice, but I don't even get into the while-function.
Since SetupDiGetClassDevs is from…
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SetupDiGetClassDevs to list SCSI drives fails with error code 13 (ERROR_INVALID_DATA)
I have a rather interesting problem for which I'm unable to find a resolution. I'm using Setup API to list drives in the system. I have no trouble using the code listed below when setting the enumerator to "IDE". My angst comes when the…
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SetupDiGetClassDevs causing error on XP
I have a Win32 application that is invoked by another WPF application. In the Win32 tray application I am registering for USB Device notifications. In this I use the API call to SetupDiGetClassDevs So that I can look for any connected devices.
On XP…
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What do I pass as the last value to the function SetupAPI.DLL.SetupDiEnumDeviceInterfaces()?
I'm working in Python trying to create a simple program that reads and write from and to a fairly simple USB device. The problem I'm having is that since PyWinUSB and PyUSB don't seem to have what I need (trying to write to the device makes things…
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Calling SetupDiGetClassDevs from Python only returns an integer value
I'm trying to create a simple read/write application for a fairly simple USB device, but it's turning out to be not so simple at all.
I'm using WinUSB and SetupAPI DLLs and working from scratch since I can't seem to find anything that actually works…
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Linker error with DiInstallDevice x86
I'm using DiInstallDevice function (MSDN) for driver installing. However, I've got a linker error when building solution under x86, while x64 version is OK. Error is LNK2019, linked was unable to find function in x86 version of newdev.lib. Here is a…
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WIX installer, include different merge modules depending on platform
I'm writing an an application with a WIX installer. The application is requires a driver (which I also wrote), and this is installed via a merge module included in the main WIX installer project.
Different platforms require a different driver…
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SetupVerifyInfFile returns ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER (0x57) for windows xp
This code successfully works on Vista/Win7, but it fails on win xp (returns ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER). There're no docs in internet about this problem. Does anybody know where the mistake is? Thanks.
QList > versions;
versions <<…
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why is LogSeverity #defined as DWORD in windows SetupAPI
I see this #define in windows kit 10 SetupAPI.h in line 4871
#define LogSeverity DWORD
So I can't do something like
typedef int LogSeverity
This effectively makes LogSeverity like a reserved keyword if I dont want to redefine…
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use SetupGetInfDriverStoreLocation function
BOOL SetupGetInfDriverStoreLocation(
_In_ PCTSTR FileName,
_In_opt_ PSP_ALTPLATFORM_INFO AlternatePlatformInfo,
_In_opt_ PCTSTR LocaleName,
_Out_ PTSTR ReturnBuffer,
_In_ DWORD …
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