Observing Device Removal
As well as watching for the arrival of devices, an application may wish to watch for a device being removed from the system, such as a USB device being unplugged. Unlike device arrival messages, which are delivered for any device that meets the criteria described by a matching dictionary, a device removal message is delivered only for a particular device that the application has registered an interest in. An application will typically register an interest in all devices that it has opened, since the application will want to respond to the removal of a device that it is accessing.
In our previous code examples, such as Listing 5-3, we obtained a reference to a driver object, read properties from the driver, and then released ...
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