Sorry it's been so long since I've updated this blog -- the projects I've been working on for the past few months aren't publicly disclosed, so it's tough to find time (and material!) to write about.
Andre Michaud is a rising star SDET on the Tablet PC platform team. He helped deliver InkCanvas and stylus input in WPF, but wasn't satisfied that the NetFX v3.0 didn't do anything to make writing battery-conscious applications any easier.
So, he wrote a few words about how to do this. And now it's the headline article in this month's MSDN Magazine!
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/07/PowerAware/default.aspx
Great stuff. Want to see power management features baked into the CLR for NetFX v4 or later? Write your local representatives...