How do I get the current mouse screen coordinates in WPF?

Question

How to get current mouse coordination on the screen? I know only Mouse.GetPosition() which get mousePosition of element, but I want to get the coordination without using element.

Answer 1

Or in pure WPF use PointToScreen.

Sample helper method:

// Gets the absolute mouse position, relative to screen Point GetMousePos() => _window.PointToScreen(Mouse.GetPosition(_window)); 

Answer 2

To follow up on Rachel's answer.
Here's two ways in which you can get Mouse Screen Coordinates in WPF.

1.Using Windows Forms. Add a reference to System.Windows.Forms

public static Point GetMousePositionWindowsForms() {     var point = Control.MousePosition;     return new Point(point.X, point.Y); } 

2.Using Win32

[DllImport("user32.dll")] [return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Bool)] internal static extern bool GetCursorPos(ref Win32Point pt);  [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)] internal struct Win32Point {     public Int32 X;     public Int32 Y; }; public static Point GetMousePosition() {     var w32Mouse = new Win32Point();     GetCursorPos(ref w32Mouse);      return new Point(w32Mouse.X, w32Mouse.Y); }