How to get full name of microphone in C#?

Question

I'd like to get full name of all connected microphones. I was googling to find out an answer but there was no answer that satisfies me.

Let me show some examples:

1.

ManagementObjectSearcher mo = new ManagementObjectSearcher("select * from Win32_SoundDevice");

foreach (ManagementObject soundDevice in mo.Get())
{               
    MessageBox.Show(soundDevice.GetPropertyValue("Caption").ToString());  
    // or 
    MessageBox.Show(soundDevice.GetPropertyValue("Description").ToString());  
    //or
    MessageBox.Show(soundDevice.GetPropertyValue("Manufacturer").ToString()); 
    //or 
    MessageBox.Show(soundDevice.GetPropertyValue("Name").ToString());
    //or
    MessageBox.Show(soundDevice.GetPropertyValue("ProductName").ToString());                     
}

All of these getters shows: "Device Audio USB" or "Device compatible with High Definition standard".

2.

WaveInCapabilities[] devices = GetAvailableDevices();        
foreach(device in devices)
{
    MessageBox.Show(device.ProductName);
}

The same answer: "Device Audio USB" or "Device compatible with High Definition standard".

I want to get the full name. I mean, something like: "Sennheiser microphone USB". Is it even possible? I found: Get the full name of a waveIn device but a link in it is broken and I don't see any dsound.lib for c# (to use DirectSoundCaptureEnumerate). Am I missing anything? Or is there any other option?

Answer 1

@AnkurTripathi answer is correct but it returns a name that contains up to 32 characters. If anyone doesn't want this restriction then the best idea is to use an enumarator:

using NAudio.CoreAudioApi;

MMDeviceEnumerator enumerator = new MMDeviceEnumerator();
var devices = enumerator.EnumerateAudioEndPoints(DataFlow.Capture, DeviceState.Active);            
foreach (var device in devices)
    MessageBox.Show(device.friendlyName);

It works perfect for me.

Answer 2

Try Naudio https://naudio.codeplex.com/

for (int n = 0; n < WaveIn.DeviceCount; n++)
{
    this.recordingDevices.Add(WaveIn.GetCapabilities(n).ProductName);
    comboBoxAudio.Items.Add(WaveIn.GetCapabilities(n).ProductName);
}

for get Full Name(FriendlyName):

MMDeviceEnumerator enumerator = new MMDeviceEnumerator();
foreach (MMDevice device in enumerator.EnumerateAudioEndPoints(DataFlow.Capture, DeviceState.Active))
   {
           this.recordingDevices.Add(device.FriendlyName);
   }