Getting an event on monitor hotplug for windows

Question

I'd really like to listen for when a monitor gets hotplugged like when a laptop docs or has a external monitor plugged in.

I'm hoping I can do this in .net maybe with some pinvoke.

Kordula

Oh I've had a little more luck with a similar question differently worded: #5982020 – Outstay

Does this answer your question? Detect external display being connected or removed under Windows 7 – Chartres

Answer 1

As said here:

When adding a monitor on Windows 7 x64 I see registered messages "UxdDisplayChangeMessage" and "HotplugDetected". You can use RegisterWindowMessage to get the identifier for these messages and later just handle messages with this identifier.

Chartres