How to Detect New Hardware Installed

[brucekr]

Is there a simple way to be notified if windows has installed new hardware?  I'm trying to detect when someone connects a USB-Serial adaptor on the fly.  Additionally, what would be an easy to way to find out the COM Port number of the newly installed piece?

Thanks,
Bruce

[smercurio_fc]

Did you try a search?

How to monitor USB ports?

For the second question: VISA Find Resource.

[brucekr]

I did search, but thank you for the links.  I'll check them out.