Getting my screens' name in c#

Question

I am aware of the Screen class, but when trying to use Screen.AllScreens[0], I get something like .\Device1. Instead, I'd like to have my screen's name, something like HP 24' something. How can that be done? Thanks

Answer 1

I think you want the Win32_DesktopMonitor class from the System.Management namespace. I'm not sure off-hand which property you want, but try something like this to see what you get:

SelectQuery q = new SelectQuery("SELECT Name, DeviceID, Description FROM Win32_DesktopMonitor");
using(ManagementObjectSearcher mos = new ManagementObjectSearcher(q))
{
    foreach(ManagementObject mo in mos.Get())
    {
        Console.WriteLine("{0}, {1}, {2}",
            mo.Properties["Name"].Value.ToString(),
            mo.Properties["DeviceID"].Value.ToString(),
            mo.Properties["Description"].Value.ToString());
    }
}

You can filter by the specific DeviceID if you so wish with a simple "WHERE DeviceID = 'sausages'" clause in the SQL. Though perhaps with less sausage.

Answer 2

have you tried the DeviceName property? I think I would do Screen.getPrimaryScreen().DeviceName

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.screen.devicename.aspx

Answer 3

I think you may need to use WMI for this. Here is a a SO link. Basically you go after something like Win32_DesktopMonitor.

Answer 4

You may have an 'HP 24" TrueFlat Display' or whatever, but as far as windows is concerned it's almost certainly just listed as "Plug and Play Monitor", and that's it.