Media type information

Question

I am using Visual Studio 2010 Professional, on a Windows 7 Ultimate laptop.

I am trying to create a program that will display the media type information of a disc inserted into the optical drive. For example, if a user inserts a blank CD-R a label would read "Blank CD-R", if user inserts a blank DVD-RW, label would read "Blank DVD-RW" etc..

After numerous attempts at 'Googling',  have found nothing.  Is there anyone out there can offer me some assistance? 

If possible, I would like to do this without the need for any third party libraries.

Answer 1

Microsoft has a library for that called IMAPI (Image Mastering API)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366450%28VS.85%29.aspx

here is a vb example on how to get the media type

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364821(v=vs.85).aspx

Answer 2

Thanks a lot Rbie, I gave it a quick look (not at my machine at the moment), and it looks like it will do the trick (even if it does look a little complex and confusing (I am just a beginner, but I will get there, eventually)).