Andre Michaud describes Creating power-aware applications, Power support on Windows XP, Power support on Windows Vista, Custom WPF dependency properties and routed events.

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.

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School IT staff may find this article useful for understanding ways to make Tablet PC, Ultra-Mobile PC and other notebook software more efficient, and thus extend battery life.

An increasing number of teachers will do this themselves, or may ask their IT staff to arrange these adjustments for students.

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