Detecting CD drive letter in C#

[yellowblueyellow]

Hey All,

I am using the following line of code to pick all logical drives on
the local machine:

string[] drives = Directory.GetLogicalDrives();

using the above code I can get output in the form of C:\, D:\, E:
\..etc

now I want to filter out the CD/DVD and FLOPPY drive... how do I do
this?

thanks

 

[Sheng Jiang[MVP]]

use p-invoke to call GetDriveType
see http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/01/CQA/

 

[Tom Porterfield]

Hey All,

I am using the following line of code to pick all logical drives on
the local machine:

string[] drives = Directory.GetLogicalDrives();

using the above code I can get output in the form of C:\, D:\, E:
\..etc

now I want to filter out the CD/DVD and FLOPPY drive... how do I do
this?

System.IO.DriveInfo[] drives = System.IO.DriveInfo.GetDrives();

foreach (System.IO.DriveInfo drive in drives)
{
if (drive.DriveType == System.IO.DriveType.CDRom)
Console.WriteLine(drive.Name);
}

Floppies will appear as DriveType.Removable, same as USB drives.

 

[Alex Meleta]

Hi,

To get the drive list better to use the:
DriveInfo[] dr = System.IO.DriveInfo.GetDrives();

And to detect its type Just:
dr[<index>].DriveType

Regards, Alex Meleta
[TechBlog] http://devkids.blogspot.com

 

[yellowblueyellow]

awesome .. thanks a bunch guys

Hi,

To get the drive list better to use the:
DriveInfo[] dr = System.IO.DriveInfo.GetDrives();

And to detect its type Just:
dr[<index>].DriveType

Regards, Alex Meleta
[TechBlog]http://devkids.blogspot.com

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