In the webcast, presenters Constanze Roman and Maarten Struys will "show developers how relatively easy it is to make your application battery-friendly and your users happy," according to Microsoft. "After attending this webcast, there is no excuse for you to continue polling for system state changes and thus draining the batteries of Windows Mobile devices," says a description on the MSDN website.

Roman writes in her blog that "Developing applications that don't drain the battery life of your device is crucial in making your application succesful." The webcast "will explain and demonstrate [Windows Mobile's] state and notification broker that provides easy access to more than 100 different hardware and system states, such as network connectivity and battery power, all consistently within reach by managed code," she adds.


Microsoft's webcast demonstrates use of device emulators to help test Windows Mobile's power management
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Like prior webcasts in the "24 hours of Windows Mobile application development" series, this 75-minute presentation features a mix of PowerPoint slides and screencasts. In the above still, for example, Struys shows off Windows Mobile's power management capabilities using Visual Studio and a Windows Mobile 6.1 device emulator.

Constanze Roman, a community program manager with Microsoft's Windows Mobile team, has been working in the Windows Mobile and Windows Embedded field for more than seven years, and frequently participates in webcasts, blogs, and other activities aimed at the Windows Mobile developer community, according to Microsoft. She maintains her own blog devoted to Windows Mobile development, Constanze's Mobile Musings.

Windows Embedded Evangelist Maarten Struys is a technical manager at PTS Software in the Netherlands. Struys speaks regularly at Windows-related conferences, according to Microsoft, and is also a freelance journalist who maintains a blog on the .NET for Devices website.

Further information

To view "24 hours of Windows Mobile application development: Developing battery-friendly applications," go to Microsoft's MSDN website, here [a Windows Live ID and password will be requested].

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