to pick up inserted serial port portname

Question

hii... i want to auto detect a serial port name in a combo box...my device should pick up its name

for ex. i'm using the

"Silicon Labs CP210x USB to UART Bridge" driver...

when i insert my serial port to the system, combo box can automatically detects name of that serial port..
is it possible???

Vulpes · Answer

Incidentally if you feel the WMI approach is a bit 'heavy' for your requirement then a cruder but much simpler approach would be to poll the SerialPort.GetPortNames method every second or so using a timer to see if there have been any changes to the string array which it returns: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.ports.serialport.getportnames(v=vs.110).aspx

Vulpes · Answer

Well it's possible to do stuff like this using WMI events but not easy. Fortunately there's some code in this thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4199083/detect-serial-port-insertion-removal