Finding the CD drives on a system

[Greg Smith]

Is there a way to detect how many, and what drive letters the CD/DVD drives
on a system are?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[mdb]

"Greg Smith" <gj*@umn.edu> wrote in
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Is there a way to detect how many, and what drive letters the CD/DVD
drives on a system are?

You can use Environment.GetLogicalDrives to enumerate them, and
kernel32.dll's GetDriveType to figure out what it is.

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

public class MyClass
{
[DllImport("kernel32.dll")]
public static extern DriveType GetDriveType( string lpRootPathName );

public enum DriveType : uint
{
DRIVE_UNKNOWN = 0,
DRIVE_NO_ROOT_DIR = 1,
DRIVE_REMOVABLE = 2,
DRIVE_FIXED = 3,
DRIVE_REMOTE = 4,
DRIVE_CDROM = 5,
DRIVE_RAMDISK = 6
}

public static void Main()
{
string[] x = Environment.GetLogicalDrives();
foreach(string y in x)
{
DriveType t = GetDriveType(y);
Console.WriteLine(y + " - " + t.ToString());
}
Console.ReadLine();
}
}

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-mdb

[Yunus Emre ALPÖZEN [MCSD.NET]]

I think the best way doing this, is the following code snippet

foreach (System.IO.DriveInfo drive in System.IO.DriveInfo.GetDrives())
Console.WriteLine("{0}\t{1}", drive.Name, drive.DriveType);
HTH
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Thanks,
Yunus Emre ALPÖZEN
BSc, MCSD.NET

"Greg Smith" <gj*@umn.edu> wrote in message
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Is there a way to detect how many, and what drive letters the CD/DVD
drives on a system are?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Willy Denoyette [MVP]]

This class in new in v2.0 of the framework.

Willy.

"Yunus Emre ALPÖZEN [MCSD.NET]" <ye***@msakademik.net> wrote in message
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I think the best way doing this, is the following code snippet

foreach (System.IO.DriveInfo drive in System.IO.DriveInfo.GetDrives())
Console.WriteLine("{0}\t{1}", drive.Name, drive.DriveType);
HTH
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Thanks,
Yunus Emre ALPÖZEN
BSc, MCSD.NET

"Greg Smith" <gj*@umn.edu> wrote in message
news:OY**************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

Is there a way to detect how many, and what drive letters the CD/DVD
drives on a system are?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[mdb]

"Yunus Emre ALPÖZEN [MCSD.NET]" <ye***@msakademik.net> wrote in news:
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foreach (System.IO.DriveInfo drive in System.IO.DriveInfo.GetDrives())
Console.WriteLine("{0}\t{1}", drive.Name, drive.DriveType);

System.IO.DriveInfo doesn't compile for me... is this .NET 2.0?

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-mdb

[Yunus Emre ALPÖZEN [MCSD.NET]]

Yes... For Framework1.1 u must write a code like as u pointed out. Or u can
use something like this;
http://groups.msn.com/windowsscript/...=2&sortstring=
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Thanks,
Yunus Emre ALPÖZEN
BSc, MCSD.NET

"mdb" <m_b_r_a_y@c_t_i_u_s_a__d0t__com> wrote in message
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"Yunus Emre ALPÖZEN [MCSD.NET]" <ye***@msakademik.net> wrote in news:
#i**************@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl:

foreach (System.IO.DriveInfo drive in System.IO.DriveInfo.GetDrives())
Console.WriteLine("{0}\t{1}", drive.Name, drive.DriveType);

System.IO.DriveInfo doesn't compile for me... is this .NET 2.0?

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-mdb