In this article we are going to see how to check programmatically the device power source in Windows Phone application development. To check the device power source we need to make use of the DeviceSource class which provides the information of the power source from which source the device is powered, basically it checks whether the device is currently running on battery power or is plugged in to an external power supply. Let us see the steps on how to achieve this task in our Windows Phone application development. Open Visual Studio 2012 IDE and create a new Windows Phone project with a valid project name as shown in the screen below. [more]
Clicking on OK will create the project and the solution with the list of default files and folders that are required to run the application. It will take some time to create these files based on your system configuration, so once everything is ready we can see the Visual Studio IDE with the project as shown in the screen below.
Add some controls to trigger the event to check about the device power source, basically we will add a Button control to trigger the click event and a textblock to display the information about the power source as shown in the code below.
XAML Code:
[code:c#]<StackPanel x:Name=”TitlePanel” Grid.Row=”0″ Margin=”12,17,0,28″>
<TextBlock x:Name=”ApplicationTitle” Text=”F5debug How to Series” Style=”{StaticResource PhoneTextNormalStyle}”/>
<TextBlock x:Name=”PageTitle” Text=”Photo Chooser” Margin=”9,-7,0,0″ Style=”{StaticResource PhoneTextTitle1Style}”/>
</StackPanel>
<!–ContentPanel – place additional content here–>
<Grid x:Name=”ContentPanel” Grid.Row=”1″ Margin=”12,0,12,0″>
<Button Content=”Check Power Source” Height=”72″ HorizontalAlignment=”Left” Margin=”9,6,0,0″ Name=”button1″ VerticalAlignment=”Top” Width=”441″ />
<TextBlock Height=”334″ HorizontalAlignment=”Left” TextWrapping=”Wrap” Margin=”29,108,0,0″ Name=”textBlock1″ Text=”” VerticalAlignment=”Top” Width=”407″ />
</Grid>
In the button click event we need to write the below code which gets the power source information using the DeviceSource class property(PowerSource) as shown in the code below.
C# Code:
[code:c#]using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Navigation;
using Microsoft.Phone.Controls;
using Microsoft.Phone.Shell;
using F5debugHowto67.Resources;
using Microsoft.Phone.Info;
namespace F5debugHowto67
{
public partial class MainPage : PhoneApplicationPage
{
// Constructor
public MainPage()
{
InitializeComponent();
// Sample code to localize the ApplicationBar
//BuildLocalizedApplicationBar();
}
private void button1_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
txtOutput.Text = DeviceStatus.PowerSource.ToString();
}
}
}
Now we are done with the code, just run the application by pressing F5 directly from the keyboard or we can use the Build and execute the project option from the tool bar to run the application. Once the Build is successful we can see the Windows Phone emulator with the application and the expected outputs as shown in the screen below.