PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Height is not the full screen

Question

I have a windows form. I'm setting it's size using the following code. My desired behaviour is to have it take the full width and half the height of the primary display.

this.Location = new Point(0, 0);
this.WindowState = FormWindowState.Normal;
this.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Width,Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Height / 2);

The problem is there is a space on the right form (it's not taking up the full screen). Does anyone have any suggestions as to why?

Thanks

Aero enabled? http://stackoverflow.com/a/8839388/17034 – Hans Passant Aug 15 '12 at 01:31 — Hans Passant, Aug 15 '12 at 01:31

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 14 '12 at 13:14

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Try use

Screen.PrimaryScreen.WorkingArea

answered Aug 14 '12 at 13:14

JleruOHeP

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@Jleru0HeP thanks for your response. I tried that and there is still a small gap on the side. It looks to be with width of the scroll bar. – probably at the beach Aug 14 '12 at 13:36
Maybe your form then resizes a little again? – JleruOHeP Aug 14 '12 at 13:37
Adding + ~30 pixels to the Width will fill it so it seems the working area or bounds is considered to be slightly inside the desktop bounds. – probably at the beach Aug 14 '12 at 13:50

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 23 '21 at 02:41

Two ways to make it fullscreen:

// maximize the form
this.WindowState = FormWindowState.Maximized;

or

// hide the border
this.FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle.None;

You can try them together but have to notice the order, hide the border first, then set the window state to maximized.

PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Height is not the full screen

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