How to detect when the laptop is running on batteries in .NET?

Question

Hi,

How to detect when the laptop is running on batteries (or AC) in .NET?

Thanks, Mahesh

Answer 1

See here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1973117/can-we-detect-the-laptop-battery-level-using-net

Answer 2

Hi, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/347862/how-to-detect-when-laptop-power-cable-has-been-disconnected

Answer 3

For Vista and up, you can use WindowsAPICodecPack (PowerManager.PowerSourceChanged)