How to detect hot plugging of monitor in a win32 application?

Question

I need some kind of event from Windows whenever there is a monitor that's getting plugged into system. Is there any API in Windows to do that. BTW, it is an C++ application

Answer 1

Use RegisterDeviceNotification to register for getting WM_DEVICECHANGE notification.

Answer 2

You can do it via WMI, AFAIK. I've never tried it though so I can't give much help

Read here for more info: MSDN - Receiving a WMI Event