Traping the power notifications in DotNet

[AmolP]

Hi,
I am using Visual Studio 2005 VB.NET.
I want to code an application that can trap the On OR OFF events of an handheld device.

Do you have any Idea how to do this?

[Dino.M]

Hello AmolP!
You cant trap this using only an application you need a driver for this which will communicate with the device & send you the notifications.

Hope this helps you!

[AmolP]

Thanks for the reply!
I want to perform some action in my application when the handheld gets power on after a standby mode or like that.
I went through the Power Management
reference present in the Windows CE Sdk. But I'm not able
to call the RequestPowerNotifications() and other related
methods.

Please help me if you know how to do this?

[Matellis]

I am not sure about this but according to me you have to use the CeRunAppAtEvent with NOTIFICATION_EVENT_WAKEUP.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa932775.aspx

Hope this helps!

[Praetor]

Here's the code to call the CerunAppAtEvent in VB .NET !
Add 2 buttons in a form (1 for activate, 1 for deactivate: one call the Activate Method and the other the Deactivate Method)

Public Class ExecEvent
        <System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport("coredll.dll")> _
         Private Shared Function CeRunAppAtEvent(ByVal AppName As String, ByVal WhichEvent As Integer) As Boolean
        End Function
        Const NOTIFICATION_EVENT_NONE = 0
        Const NOTIFICATION_EVENT_TIME_CHANGE = 1
        Const NOTIFICATION_EVENT_SYNC_END = 2
        Const NOTIFICATION_EVENT_DEVICE_CHANGE = 7
        Const NOTIFICATION_EVENT_RS232_DETECTED = 9
        Const NOTIFICATION_EVENT_RESTORE_END = 10
        Const NOTIFICATION_EVENT_WAKEUP = 11           'PocketPC only
        Const NOTIFICATION_EVENT_TZ_CHANGE = 12        'PocketPC only
        Private Shared bRet As Boolean
        Private Shared AppPath As String = "\windows\calc.exe"

        Public Shared Sub Activate()
            Try
                bRet = CeRunAppAtEvent(AppPath, NOTIFICATION_EVENT_SYNC_END)
            Catch
                MessageBox.Show(Err.Description)
            End Try
        End Sub

        Public Shared Sub Deactivate()
            Try
                bRet = CeRunAppAtEvent(AppPath, _
                                        NOTIFICATION_EVENT_NONE)
            Catch
                MessageBox.Show(Err.Description)
            End Try
        End Sub
    End Class