Make my wpf application Full Screen (Cover taskbar and title bar of window)

c# wpf wpf-controls fullscreen
Sowvik Roy picture Sowvik Roy · Aug 26, 2014 · Viewed 29.4k times · Source

I would like to make my application such that it can maximize to full screen means it hide the windows task bar and the title bar as well. And it should triggered by a button.

I am trying to develop the my application window like this. enter image description here

Add my code snippet below

 <controls:MetroWindow x:Class="EDUI.MainWindow"
            xmlns:controls="clr-namespace:MahApps.Metro.Controls;assembly=MahApps.Metro"
            xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
            xmlns:local="clr-namespace:EDiscoveryCore;assembly=EDiscoveryCore"
            xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
            Title="eDi"  BorderBrush="SkyBlue" BorderThickness="2" Height="999" Width="1071" WindowState="Maximized" x:Name="MainWindows">

Answer

Manish Parakhiya picture Manish Parakhiya · Aug 26, 2014

You need to set the WindowStyle to none as well as WindowState to Maximized

<Window ...    
 WindowStyle="None"   
 WindowState="Maximized">

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