Help - Dual Display

[Craig G Fraser]

Can anyone tell me if its possible and how to programatically (in c#) open a dialog on a secondary display monitor ? ie: The main app interface displays on the primary monitor and on certain events a dialog is opened/displayed on the secondary monitor ? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Cheers Craig

[Heath Stewart]

You can use the Screen class to get the bounds of the second (if any) screen and set your window's location accordingly. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Software Design Engineer Developer Division Sustained Engineering Microsoft [My Articles] [My Blog]

[Craig G Fraser]

Heath, Thanx for the info - will try that solution. Is there any chance of providing me with a code snippett ?? Cheers Craig

[Heath Stewart]

Read the documentation for the Screen.PrimaryScreen property. Do the same for the second screen, if any, like so:

Rectangle area = Screen.PrimaryScreen.WorkingArea;
if (Screen.AllScreens.Length > 1)
area = Screen.AllScreens[1].WorkingArea; // arrays in .NET are 0-based.

There are lots of examples of how to use the classes, members, etc. in the .NET BCL in the .NET Framework SDK (which gets installed by default with VS.NET, is downloable as separate documentation and tools, or is available online at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library[^]). This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Software Design Engineer Developer Division Sustained Engineering Microsoft [My Articles] [My Blog]