C# setting screen brightness Windows 7

Question

I want ajust screen brightness by my self. Because Windows lets me only adjusting in limited range. I want dim the display from 0 to 100% and turning it off/on. It should be possible if windows can it do automatically (Dim display after: x minutes/Turn off display after: x minutes). I tried some sources and classes what I found by google. But no of them works.

Have you ever tried this or can you recommend me any working code?

Thanks for responds.

Answer 1

You can use the WmiSetBrightness method:

using System.Management;
//...
static void SetBrightness(byte targetBrightness) {
    ManagementScope scope = new ManagementScope("root\\WMI");
    SelectQuery query = new SelectQuery("WmiMonitorBrightnessMethods");
    using(ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher(scope, query)) {
        using(ManagementObjectCollection objectCollection = searcher.Get()) {
            foreach(ManagementObject mObj in objectCollection) {
                mObj.InvokeMethod("WmiSetBrightness",
                    new Object[] { UInt32.MaxValue, targetBrightness });
                break;
            }
        }
    }
}

For more details, please take a look at Brightness Control in WDDM and Monitor Configuration Functions