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I've been working on a cool instillation project for Microsoft and one of the things I need to do is have my application go full screen across multiple monitors. By default, if you maximize your application window inside Windows it fills the Primary Screen or Active screen but it doesn't go across all monitors. You have to manually drag the application window across to have it show up on more than one monitor. What if you wanted to make a screen saver for multiple monitors? Doing some internet searching I pieced together this little solution. Here is a code snippet that maximizes your WPF app window across all monitors in multi-mon setups. It also adds a listener for the ESC key to close the window down. Hope this helps people find this solution faster in the future.

<br />using System;<br />using System.Collections.Generic;<br />using System.Linq;<br />using System.Text;<br />using System.Windows;<br />using System.Windows.Interop;<br />using System.Runtime.InteropServices;<br />using System.Windows.Controls;<br />using System.Windows.Data;<br />using System.Windows.Documents;<br />using System.Windows.Input;<br />using System.Windows.Media;<br />using System.Windows.Media.Imaging;<br />using System.Windows.Navigation;<br />using System.Windows.Shapes;<br />using System.Windows.Forms;<br /><br />namespace MyNamespace<br />{<br /> /// <summary><br /> /// Maximize your WPF app window across multiple monitors logic for Window1.xaml<br /> /// Also ads the ESCAPE key to close the window.<br /> /// </summary><br /> public partial class Window1 : Window<br /> {<br /> int height = 0;<br /> int width = 0;<br /><br /> public Window1()<br /> {<br /> <br /> InitializeComponent();<br /> <br /><br /> foreach (System.Windows.Forms.Screen screen in System.Windows.Forms.Screen.AllScreens)<br /> {<br /> // height += screen.WorkingArea.Height; <-- Changed this line<br /> // If you want to make sure your largest screen height is used<br /> // put some logic in here to check the value of height against<br /> // screen.WorkingArea.Height in the foreach loop. <br /> // otherwise the value of height will be the rightmost screen<br /> // in your system setup.<br /> height = screen.WorkingArea.Height;<br /> width += screen.WorkingArea.Width;<br /><br /> }<br /><br /> Top = 0;<br /> Left = 0;<br /> this.Height = height;<br /> this.Width = width;<br /><br /><br /> <br /> this.WindowState = WindowState.Normal;<br /> this.WindowStyle = WindowStyle.None;<br /> this.ResizeMode = ResizeMode.NoResize;<br /> <br /> this.KeyDown += new System.Windows.Input.KeyEventHandler(Window1_KeyDown);<br /> }<br /><br /> void Window1_KeyDown(object sender, System.Windows.Input.KeyEventArgs e)<br /> {<br /> if (e.Key == System.Windows.Input.Key.Escape)<br /> this.Close();<br /> }<br /> }<br />}<br /><br />

Then in your XAML make sure you don't have any values set so the code behind can do it's thing.
<br /><Window x:Class="MyNamespace.Window1"<br /> xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"<br /> xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"<br /> Title="Window1" ><br />

Labels: C#, WPF

Bellevue teachers gather to hear the results from today's contract talks.

The 216 is my office for most of my freelance work. The views out the window are great, but sometimes it's hard to type.

Well I guess its time to get back to work.

PBJS, the data-driven creative agency where I have been working for past three years was recently aquired by Publicis, the fourth largest advertising firm in the world. That's right, the WORLD. Since the news broke today there have been a few articles talking about the acquisition:

• Press Release


• 
  The Seattle Times


• 
  paidcontent.org

Around the office we're thrilled to expand our list of world class brands/clients. The opportunities to get involved in new and cutting edge live experiences and digital advertising is really exciting. I'm particularly excited about the GLOBAL reach our small company can have. In a difficult economy, PBJS is looking very strong. It's a great place to be and I'm stoked to be a part of it.

Way to go PBJS, and way to go Simon!

Labels: PBJS