Detecting USB Insertion / Removal Events in Windows using C++
Create a dummy window that does nothing but wait for WM_DEVICECHANGE and register that window using RegisterDeviceNotification. WMI is an overkill here, IMHO.
virtual-serial-port
Faking an RS232 Serial Port
If you are developing for Windows, the com0com project might be, what you are looking for. It provides pairs of virtual COM ports that are linked via a nullmodem connetion. You can then use your favorite terminal application or whatever you like to send data to one COM port and recieve from the other one. … Read more
Virtual Serial Port for Linux
Complementing the @slonik’s answer. You can test socat to create Virtual Serial Port doing the following procedure (tested on Ubuntu 12.04): Open a terminal (let’s call it Terminal 0) and execute it: socat -d -d pty,raw,echo=0 pty,raw,echo=0 The code above returns: 2013/11/01 13:47:27 socat[2506] N PTY is /dev/pts/2 2013/11/01 13:47:27 socat[2506] N PTY is /dev/pts/3 … Read more