How to get friendly device name from DEV_BROADCAST_DEVICEINTERFACE and Device Instance ID

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Well, as noted above I found out how to get dbcc_name to populate correctly. I found that this was the easiest way to get the device name:

private static string GetDeviceName(DEV_BROADCAST_DEVICEINTERFACE dvi)
{
    string[] Parts = dvi.dbcc_name.Split('#');
    if (Parts.Length >= 3)
    {
        string DevType = Parts[0].Substring(Parts[0].IndexOf(@"?\") + 2);
        string DeviceInstanceId = Parts[1];
        string DeviceUniqueID = Parts[2];
        string RegPath = @"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\" + DevType + "\\" + DeviceInstanceId + "\\" + DeviceUniqueID;
        RegistryKey key = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(RegPath);
        if (key != null)
        {
            object result = key.GetValue("FriendlyName");
            if (result != null)
                return result.ToString();
            result = key.GetValue("DeviceDesc");
            if (result != null)
                return result.ToString();
        }
    }
    return String.Empty;
}

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