How to get the size of the current screen in WPF?

Nils picture Nils · Dec 18, 2009 · Viewed 115.5k times · Source

I know I can get the size of the primary screen by using

System.Windows.SystemParameters.PrimaryScreenWidth;
System.Windows.SystemParameters.PrimaryScreenHeight;

But how do I get the size of the current screen? (Multi-Screen users do not always use the primary screen and not all screens are using the same resolution, right?)

It would be nice to be able to acces the size from XAML, but doing so from code (C#) would suffice.

Answer

Nils picture Nils · Jan 22, 2010

I created a little wrapper around the Screen from System.Windows.Forms, currently everything works... Not sure about the "device independent pixels", though.

public class WpfScreen
{
    public static IEnumerable<WpfScreen> AllScreens()
    {
        foreach (Screen screen in System.Windows.Forms.Screen.AllScreens)
        {
            yield return new WpfScreen(screen);
        }
    }

    public static WpfScreen GetScreenFrom(Window window)
    {
        WindowInteropHelper windowInteropHelper = new WindowInteropHelper(window);
        Screen screen = System.Windows.Forms.Screen.FromHandle(windowInteropHelper.Handle);
        WpfScreen wpfScreen = new WpfScreen(screen);
        return wpfScreen;
    }

    public static WpfScreen GetScreenFrom(Point point)
    {
        int x = (int) Math.Round(point.X);
        int y = (int) Math.Round(point.Y);

        // are x,y device-independent-pixels ??
        System.Drawing.Point drawingPoint = new System.Drawing.Point(x, y);
        Screen screen = System.Windows.Forms.Screen.FromPoint(drawingPoint);
        WpfScreen wpfScreen = new WpfScreen(screen);

        return wpfScreen;
    }

    public static WpfScreen Primary
    {
        get { return new WpfScreen(System.Windows.Forms.Screen.PrimaryScreen); }
    }

    private readonly Screen screen;

    internal WpfScreen(System.Windows.Forms.Screen screen)
    {
        this.screen = screen;
    }

    public Rect DeviceBounds
    {
        get { return this.GetRect(this.screen.Bounds); }
    }

    public Rect WorkingArea
    {
        get { return this.GetRect(this.screen.WorkingArea); }
    }

    private Rect GetRect(Rectangle value)
    {
        // should x, y, width, height be device-independent-pixels ??
        return new Rect
                   {
                       X = value.X,
                       Y = value.Y,
                       Width = value.Width,
                       Height = value.Height
                   };
    }

    public bool IsPrimary
    {
        get { return this.screen.Primary; }
    }

    public string DeviceName
    {
        get { return this.screen.DeviceName; }
    }
}