How can I get the active screen dimensions?
Screen.FromControl, Screen.FromPoint and Screen.FromRectangle should help you with this. For example in WinForms it would be:
class MyForm : Form{ public Rectangle GetScreen() { return Screen.FromControl(this).Bounds; }}I don't know of an equivalent call for WPF. Therefore, you need to do something like this extension method.
static class ExtensionsForWPF{ public static System.Windows.Forms.Screen GetScreen(this Window window) { return System.Windows.Forms.Screen.FromHandle(new WindowInteropHelper(window).Handle); }}
You can use this to get desktop workspace bounds of the primary screen:
System.Windows.SystemParameters.WorkArea
This is also useful for getting just the size of the primary screen:
System.Windows.SystemParameters.PrimaryScreenWidthSystem.Windows.SystemParameters.PrimaryScreenHeight
Also you may need:
to get the combined size of all monitors and not one in particular.