Andre Michaud has posted an interesting article at MSDN on how to make your Windows Presentation Foundation apps power aware.
There’s a good bit about the differences in power management between XP and Vista, how to detect the OS, how to access the PowerBroadcast messages, and how to create custom events based on this info.
As mobile computers become increasingly prevalent, battery life has become more important. Hardware manufacturers are aware of this and design mobile devices with battery consumption in mind. But can the same be said for your software? If not, maybe you should begin to think about coding software that is power-aware. Both Windows® XP and Windows Vista™ provide system information to enable your applications to do just that. In this article, I provide a starting point from which developers can understand power awareness in their Windows Presentation Foundation applications.
