Thursday, April 18, 2013

Retrieving USB VID/PID in application on Windows CE 6.0/7.0

Since Windows CE is used for customized devices and some requirements demanded from the customers to restrict certain USB devices based on the Vendor ID (VID) or Product ID(PID). Device has to respond only to their USB accessories, for example, Customer has designed their own USB HID device accessories for their devices and expected to respond only for their accessories. Even with their accessories they are introducing special featured accessories and expecting the device (application) to act accordingly for each accessory dynamically. So we need to take some decision on the application which requires some unique ID(VID/PID) to identify the connected accessory. Please see the below link to know more...
http://www.e-consystems.com/blog/windowsce/?p=878

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