Getting The Location Of A Control Relative To The Entire Screen?

c# winforms controls location
sooprise picture sooprise · Feb 14, 2011 · Viewed 52.5k times · Source

Let's say I have a Control and its location is relative to its parent. If its embedded many times and is the great great great grandchild of the main form, how can I determine what its location is on my entire screen, not just its location in the immediate parent? This is for the purpose of printing a particular Control via a screenshot (since for some controls the DrawToBitmap doesn't work properly).

Answer

SLaks picture SLaks · Feb 14, 2011

You're looking for the PointToScreen method:

Point location = someControl.PointToScreen(Point.Empty);

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