Today we’ve released a new updated version of USBPhysic (v1.1.0)

Here is what’s new in this version:

• improved hardware serial extraction in Vista and Windows 7.
• you don’t need to have your application elevated anymore in Windows Vista or 7 when admin rights required. Now it works even with a guest account type.

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• Personal Developer License: Individual customers, Companies and organizations including non-profit and for-profit. Allows one developer to develop with SDK/DLL; Allows integrate in to ONLY ONE Desktop/Web Application (unlimited no. of deploys).
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 In order to get the usb storage device (external portable Hard Drives, flash/pen/key drive etc) serial number and other manufacturer information (NOT volume serial, only the unique one, the one that will not change after a format, physical one) using our USBPhysic library and C# (CSharp) you need to do the following 3 easy steps:

(1) Load USBPhysic library and declare the imported library functions :

(2) Call the Init function to initialize the user computer usb storage devices

(3) Now that you have the total hard drives count you can query for the manufacturer information passing the usb device index to the GetPhysicInfo function:

  A complete project with source code example for using USBPhysic component to get usb device (hard disk, storage device pen etc) physical information with CSharp (C#) is available in the resources area of the product (here).

This workaround is not required anymore, starting from version 1.1.0 of USBPhysic you don’t need to have your application elevated in Windows Vista or 7, no admin rights required anymore. Now it works even with a guest account type.

Issue:

 Using USBPhysic to query hard drive physical data may fail sometimes on Vista / Windows 7 if UAC (User Account Control) is enabled and calling application is not launched with sufficient rights.

Workaround

 To work around this issue without forcing the user to disable UAC mark your application with a requestedExecutionLevel. To do that you must create and embed an application manifest with your application that tells the operating system what the application needs ( digital signing of the EXE is also a good idea).
This is the format:

 To mark your application with a requestedExecutionLevel, first create an application manifest file to use with the target application. This file can be created by using any text editor. The application manifest file should have the same name as the target executable file with a .manifest extension. For example: IsUserAdmin.exe.manifest.
Example:

Executable: MyApp.exe
Manifest: MyApp.exe.manifest

Sample application manifest file:

Next, you have to attach the application manifest to the executable by adding a line in the resource file of the application (the .rc file) to have Microsoft Visual Studio embed your manifest within the resource section of the PE file. To accomplish this, place the application manifest in the same directory as the source code for the project you are building and edit the resource file to include the following lines:

 After rebuilding the application, the application manifest should be embedded in the resource section of the executable. Check your exe file with a resource viewer, you should see something like this:

USBPhysic is a stand-alone component ( 32/64-bit Windows dynamic-link library – DLL ) that can be used to extract the physical vendor information from almost any USB (Universal Serial Bus) storage device. With USBPhysic you can get the manufacturer serial number, manufacturer name and so on, of the external portable Hard Drives, flash/pen/key drive or any other kind of USB Storage Device.

Why should I need the physical USB storage info ?

As you know some of the physical information, actually only the serial number, is a unique number/string per device and this offers you a chance to programmatically identify the actual device. Let’s say you want a way to lock your software to a USB storage device (a small flash pen), or distribute your software only with a USB stick, a fast and reliable way to do that is by generating a serial number based on that USB device serial (the hardware serial number that can not be changed, even after a full format). The physical serial number is not the same as the volume serial number, it will not change after a format, and there is no way to change it unless you change the actual device.

Requirements

- USBPhysic is a stand-alone component, does not require any other files to work.

- It uses the drivers on Win32/64 platforms so there are no special library/driver requirements.

- It can be used in any programming/scripting language that can make WINAPI calls like: Delphi, C++Builder, C#, Visual C++, Visual Basic, Visual Basic.NET, VBA, PowerBuilder, Visual Foxpro, Clarion and so on.

- USB device serial numbers are optional and it depends on the hardware manufacturer if they are implemented or not.

- It requires administrator rights on VISTA/Windows 7 to successfully access the USB devices

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