DeviceSearchType

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• Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3

8/28/2008

This enumeration represents the ways to look for a matching device and is passed as a parameter to FindFirstDevice and FindNextDevice.

Syntax

typedef enum {
  DeviceSearchByLegacyName, 
  DeviceSearchByDeviceName, 
  DeviceSearchByBusName, 
  DeviceSearchByGuid, 
  DeviceSearchByParent 
} DeviceSearchType;

Elements

• DeviceSearchByLegacyName
  Search by a legacy device name. For example, in a call to FindFirstDevice, pvSearchParam might be L"COM*" to search for all COMx: devices.

• DeviceSearchByDeviceName
  Search by device name. For example, in a call to FindFirstDevice, pvSearchParam might be L"$device\\COM*" to search for all COMx devices.

• DeviceSearchByBusName
  Search by bus name. For example, in a call to FindFirstDevice, pvSearchParam might be L"PCI_0_3*" to search for PCI_0_3_0, PCI_0_3_1 and so on.

• DeviceSearchByGuid
  Search by GUID. For example, in a call to FindFirstDevice, pvSearchParam must be a GUID pointer.

• DeviceSearchByParent
  Search by parent. For example, in a call to FindFirstDevice, pvSearchParam is an activation handle value returned from ActivateDeviceEx.

Requirements

See Also

Reference

ActivateDeviceEx
FindFirstDevice
FindNextDevice