Hi,

Im new to PocketPC programming and have been using VB.Net
to develop a pocketPC application. I would appreciate it
if someone could assist me in capturing the battery
status (how much battery life is left) of the PocketPC so
that I can display it on my application. I have no idea
as to how to do this.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

There are a couple of options open to you:

(1) Check out the BatteryLife control by Tim Wilson.
http://www.opennetcf.org/batterylife.asp
(2) P/Invoke the GetSystemPowerStatusEx API. See the Pocket PC SDK for more
information

HTH
Neil

--
Neil Cowburn
Microsoft Windows Embedded MVP


"Zahid" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:603701c3777c$9e94d570$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi,
>
> Im new to PocketPC programming and have been using VB.Net
> to develop a pocketPC application. I would appreciate it
> if someone could assist me in capturing the battery
> status (how much battery life is left) of the PocketPC so
> that I can display it on my application. I have no idea
> as to how to do this.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance.

Hi,

Thanks for your help Neil. How do you use the control
from Opennetcf? Im quite new to this new Visual Studio
and especially VB.Net.

Thank in advance.
>-----Original Message-----
>There are a couple of options open to you:
>
>(1) Check out the BatteryLife control by Tim Wilson.
>http://www.opennetcf.org/batterylife.asp
>(2) P/Invoke the GetSystemPowerStatusEx API. See the
Pocket PC SDK for more
>information
>
>HTH
>Neil
>
>--
> Neil Cowburn
> Microsoft Windows Embedded MVP
>
>
>"Zahid" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:603701c3777c$9e94d570$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Hi,
>>
>> Im new to PocketPC programming and have been using
VB.Net
>> to develop a pocketPC application. I would appreciate
it
>> if someone could assist me in capturing the battery
>> status (how much battery life is left) of the PocketPC
so
>> that I can display it on my application. I have no idea
>> as to how to do this.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>.
>

Did you download the control. There is a sample client app included in the
download. Even though it is in C# you probably can find out how to use the
control. If you have specific questions on the usage we'll try to help you.

--
Regards,

Maarten Struys
PTS Software bv

"Zahid" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:0c6f01c37787$18836360$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for your help Neil. How do you use the control
> from Opennetcf? Im quite new to this new Visual Studio
> and especially VB.Net.
>
> Thank in advance.
> >-----Original Message-----
> >There are a couple of options open to you:
> >
> >(1) Check out the BatteryLife control by Tim Wilson.
> >http://www.opennetcf.org/batterylife.asp
> >(2) P/Invoke the GetSystemPowerStatusEx API. See the
> Pocket PC SDK for more
> >information
> >
> >HTH
> >Neil
> >
> >--
> > Neil Cowburn
> > Microsoft Windows Embedded MVP
> >
> >
> >"Zahid" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> >news:603701c3777c$9e94d570$(E-Mail Removed)...
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Im new to PocketPC programming and have been using
> VB.Net
> >> to develop a pocketPC application. I would appreciate
> it
> >> if someone could assist me in capturing the battery
> >> status (how much battery life is left) of the PocketPC
> so
> >> that I can display it on my application. I have no idea
> >> as to how to do this.
> >>
> >> Any ideas?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance.
> >
> >
> >.
> >

Hi,

Thanks for your help. I went through the sample
Application and now understand how to use the control.
What i didnt understand was the
"P/Invoke the GetSystemPowerStatusEx API" ...

Sorry but i am new to this kind of programming.

Thanks in advance.

>-----Original Message-----
>Did you download the control. There is a sample client
app included in the
>download. Even though it is in C# you probably can find
out how to use the
>control. If you have specific questions on the usage
we'll try to help you.
>
>--
>Regards,
>
>Maarten Struys
>PTS Software bv
>
>"Zahid" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:0c6f01c37787$18836360$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks for your help Neil. How do you use the control
>> from Opennetcf? Im quite new to this new Visual Studio
>> and especially VB.Net.
>>
>> Thank in advance.
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >There are a couple of options open to you:
>> >
>> >(1) Check out the BatteryLife control by Tim Wilson.
>> >http://www.opennetcf.org/batterylife.asp
>> >(2) P/Invoke the GetSystemPowerStatusEx API. See the
>> Pocket PC SDK for more
>> >information
>> >
>> >HTH
>> >Neil
>> >
>> >--
>> > Neil Cowburn
>> > Microsoft Windows Embedded MVP
>> >
>> >
>> >"Zahid" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> >news:603701c3777c$9e94d570$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> Im new to PocketPC programming and have been using
>> VB.Net
>> >> to develop a pocketPC application. I would
appreciate
>> it
>> >> if someone could assist me in capturing the battery
>> >> status (how much battery life is left) of the
PocketPC
>> so
>> >> that I can display it on my application. I have no
idea
>> >> as to how to do this.
>> >>
>> >> Any ideas?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks in advance.
>> >
>> >
>> >.
>> >
>
>
>.
>