# GSoC Project TSE Week 9: ReactOS Safely Removable Device Support

DevFeed: [GSoC Project TSE Week 9: ReactOS Safely Removable Device Support](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/gsoc-project-tse-week-9-32835.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://reactos.org/blogs/gsoc-project-tse-week-9/>)

Published: 2017-08-05T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Front Page on ReactOS Website](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/front-page-on-reactos-website.md>)

Topics: [ReactOS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reactos.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>)

Tags: [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [free](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/free.md>), [gsoc](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gsoc.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [os](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/os.md>), [project](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/project.md>), [react](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/react.md>), [reactos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reactos.md>), [win32](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/win32.md>), [winapi](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/winapi.md>), [windows](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/windows.md>)

## AI overview

A week-nine GSoC progress report describes integrating hotplug support into ReactOS's stobject component, adding test code for the tray icon, and investigating device enumeration and WM_DEVICECHANGE notifications. Remaining work includes completing features, addressing bugs, and testing an experimental enumeration function.

## Source excerpt

Hey there, its Shriraj here! 0/ We are already in week 9 of this 12-week journey of GSoC! Soon about to take the final lap, but wait we have a lot to do before that. This time too I don't have any pics as such to show visible progress, but yeah let's see through words what I managed to do last week. ;P What I did Last week? As I told in my last blog, we are currently working to find the appropriate enumeration filters required for safely removable devices, but as that feature is being tested on a standalone console app, I was free to prepare the stobject of ReactOS to welcome the hotplug!