How to get Battery charging status in WPF?

How to get Battery charging status from WPF applicatioin using WMI?

• I'm trying to get charging percent, and exactly the same text that is Windows showing - Not Charging, Full Charged, Charging I'm using wmi-query. I don't want to hard-code that texts, because it's working differently every time. Sometimes it's showing 95 percent- Not Charging, or can be Charging. Is there any way to get that result text? What I can do, just to check if it is 100 percent charged, to display Full Charged. But for 96 percent, it is working differently, sometimes Windows display Charged, or Not Charging

• Answer:

  Use the http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa394074%28v=vs.85%29.aspx class: static string GetBatteryStatus() { ManagementScope scope = new ManagementScope("//./root/cimv2"); SelectQuery query = new SelectQuery("Select BatteryStatus From Win32_Battery"); using(ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher(scope, query)) { using(ManagementObjectCollection objectCollection = searcher.Get()) { foreach(ManagementObject mObj in objectCollection) { PropertyData pData = mObj.Properties["BatteryStatus"]; switch((Int16)pData.Value) { //... case 2:return "Not Charging"; case 3:return "Fully Charged"; case 4:return "Low"; case 5: return "Critical"; //... } } } } return string.Empty; }