Surface tablet logical resolution

Question

I am working on a project that requires me to get the resolution of the screen of the primary screen. I am using C# .NET 3.5 framework in Windows. For all laptops I am able to get the resolution using these two calls:

string width = Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Width.ToString();
string height = Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Height.ToString();

However, this does not work for Surface tablets or high resolution laptops that do auto scaling at all as the calls return a much lower resolution than what is being displayed in the display settings of the tablets. I understand that this has to do with Windows doing special thing related to DPI and scaling the screen accordingly.

However, I am not sure how to programatically retrieve the resolution of the Surface tablets accurately (what ever the display settings are reporting those metrics).

Answer 1

Hello,

Since this issue is related with windows form, i move it to the windows form forum, there are windows form experts who would help you better.

Regards.

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Answer 2

Hello,

Since this issue is related with windows form, i move it to the windows form forum, there are windows form experts who would help you better.

Regards.

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Why Fred, 

There is nothing about windows forms in it, I think it is more Modern Apps.

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Success
Cor

Answer 3

Why Fred, 

There is nothing about windows forms in it, I think it is more Modern Apps.

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Success
Cor

Thanks Cor

Hi jayboss,

I'm moving your post to Surface Application forum for better supports. Thanks for your understanding.

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=surfaceappdevelopment

Best regards,
Youjun Tang

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