Screen Resolution Problem In WPF?

Question

I'm gonna detect the resolution with the following code in WPF :

double height = System.Windows.SystemParameters.PrimaryScreenHeight; double width = System.Windows.SystemParameters.PrimaryScreenWidth; 

Current resolution of my screen is 1920*1200, but height is 960.0 and width is 1536.0 !!!

What's wrong with it ?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Keep in mind that all WPF locations and sizes are floating point with a unit of 1/96 inch. Not pixels. This makes your window designs resolution independent. Doing the math: height = 960 / 96 = 10 inches. With your video adapter set to 120 DPI (120/96 = 125%): 10 * 120 = 1200 pixels. Same for width: 1536 / 96 * 120 = 1920 pixels.

System.Windows.Forms works in units of pixels. You are getting less than 1050 for the height because it subtracts the height of the taskbar. But for WPF you always want to work with 1/96", never pixels.