Windows.Devices.Enumeration.Pnp Namespace

Important

We no longer recommend that you use the types in the Windows.Devices.Enumeration.Pnp namespace. Instead, the types in the Windows.Devices.Enumeration namespace implement a modern, and better maintained, superset of the functionality of Windows.Devices.Enumeration.Pnp.

The alternative to PnpObjectType is the Windows.Devices.Enumeration.DeviceInformationKind enum, which you can pass as a parameter to Windows.Devices.Enumeration APIs. For example, instead of using PnpObjectType when you create a PnpObjectWatcher, use DeviceInformationKind when you create a DeviceWatcher.

Provides classes for enumerating a collection of Pnp device objects, and event handlers for monitoring changes to the objects in the collection asynchronously.

The following are typical uses of the Windows.Devices.Enumeration.Pnp API.

• Building a user interface for selecting the device to be used by an application. For example, a voice chat application may present a list of microphones or webcams for the user to select from, or a photo import application may present a list of removable storage devices for the user to import photos from.
• Device discovery and notifications about devices for apps that use them (see Windows Hardware Dev Center).

Classes

PnpObject	Important We no longer recommend that you use the types in the Windows.Devices.Enumeration.Pnp namespace. Instead, the types in the Windows.Devices.Enumeration namespace implement a modern, and better maintained, superset of the functionality of Windows.Devices.Enumeration.Pnp. The alternative to PnpObjectType is the Windows.Devices.Enumeration.DeviceInformationKind enum, which you can pass as a parameter to Windows.Devices.Enumeration APIs. For example, instead of using PnpObjectType when you create a PnpObjectWatcher, use DeviceInformationKind when you create a DeviceWatcher. Represents a PnP object. This class allows access to well-known properties of a PnP object as well as a property store of additional properties that are specified to be retrieved from the PnP object.
PnpObjectCollection	Important We no longer recommend that you use the types in the Windows.Devices.Enumeration.Pnp namespace. Instead, the types in the Windows.Devices.Enumeration namespace implement a modern, and better maintained, superset of the functionality of Windows.Devices.Enumeration.Pnp. The alternative to PnpObjectType is the Windows.Devices.Enumeration.DeviceInformationKind enum, which you can pass as a parameter to Windows.Devices.Enumeration APIs. For example, instead of using PnpObjectType when you create a PnpObjectWatcher, use DeviceInformationKind when you create a DeviceWatcher. Represents an iterable collection of Pnp device objects.
PnpObjectUpdate	Important We no longer recommend that you use the types in the Windows.Devices.Enumeration.Pnp namespace. Instead, the types in the Windows.Devices.Enumeration namespace implement a modern, and better maintained, superset of the functionality of Windows.Devices.Enumeration.Pnp. The alternative to PnpObjectType is the Windows.Devices.Enumeration.DeviceInformationKind enum, which you can pass as a parameter to Windows.Devices.Enumeration APIs. For example, instead of using PnpObjectType when you create a PnpObjectWatcher, use DeviceInformationKind when you create a DeviceWatcher. Contains the updated properties of a PnpObject.
PnpObjectWatcher	Important We no longer recommend that you use the types in the Windows.Devices.Enumeration.Pnp namespace. Instead, the types in the Windows.Devices.Enumeration namespace implement a modern, and better maintained, superset of the functionality of Windows.Devices.Enumeration.Pnp. The alternative to PnpObjectType is the Windows.Devices.Enumeration.DeviceInformationKind enum, which you can pass as a parameter to Windows.Devices.Enumeration APIs. For example, instead of using PnpObjectType when you create a PnpObjectWatcher, use DeviceInformationKind when you create a DeviceWatcher. Raises events to notify the client that a PnpObject has been added, updated, or removed from an enumerated collection of Pnp device objects in an incremental and asynchronous way.

Enums

PnpObjectType

Important We no longer recommend that you use the types in the Windows.Devices.Enumeration.Pnp namespace. Instead, the types in the Windows.Devices.Enumeration namespace implement a modern, and better maintained, superset of the functionality of Windows.Devices.Enumeration.Pnp. The alternative to PnpObjectType is the Windows.Devices.Enumeration.DeviceInformationKind enum, which you can pass as a parameter to Windows.Devices.Enumeration APIs. For example, instead of using PnpObjectType when you create a PnpObjectWatcher, use DeviceInformationKind when you create a DeviceWatcher. Defines constants that specify the type of device represented by the PnpObject.