Vista - Automount drives in custom provider

Hi,

I'm working on a RAPI/ActiveSync provider. It's comming along fine, but I
wonder if there is a good way to handle adding/removing a drive when the
device connects/disconnects.

I get Connect and Disconnect events from RAPI, but I don't see how I go
about to mount the drives when that happen.

Regards

/Staffan

Staffan Gustafsson wrote:I'm not a provider expert. Do you know what kind of events these are?

What are you willing to try/do?

I'm not sure if you can use Oisin's PSEventing to respond to the
connect/disconnect events:
http://www.codeplex.com/PSEventing

Marco

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On Nov 25, 5:31 am, "Staffan Gustafsson"
<staffan_no_spam_.e.gustafs...@xxxxxx> wrote:Hi Staffan,

This is a tough one since connect/disconnect events happen
asynchronously and as such are serviced by the .net thread pool (not
the powershell thread pool). These threads do not have access to the
context runspace, so they have no direct way to add new psdrives on
demand.

Marco suggested using my PSEventing project which would work perfectly
well, but you'd have to expose the COM RAPI events publicly, probably
as static members on some type loaded by your snapin. PSEventing can
bind to these events and it fills a background queue which can be read
interactively via my Get-Event cmdlet. The best way to get the effect
of a drive getting mounted in pseudo realtime fashion would then be to
process these events in powershell's "prompt" function which is
executed after every command.

However, if you're going to go down that road, it would be probably
easier to just create a cmdlet that is designed to be run in the
prompt function. This is the route I'm taking in my windows mobile
provider.

Hope this helps,

- Oisin / x0n