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OPMagicPotato
OPMagicPotato

Reputation: 225

How to get the position of a Windows Form on the screen?

I am coding a WinForms application in Visual Studio C# 2010 and I want to find out the location of the upper left corner of the WinForm window (the starting location of the window).

How can I do that?

Upvotes: 18

Views: 68459

Answers (6)

Behrooz Moghaddam
Behrooz Moghaddam

Reputation: 115

check this: Form.DesktopLocation Property

        int left = this.DesktopLocation.X;
        int top = this.DesktopLocation.Y;

Upvotes: 6

Ramanan
Ramanan

Reputation: 79

I had a similar case where for my Form2 i needed the screen location of Form1. i Solved it by passing the screen locationof form1 to form2 through its constructor :

//Form1

 Point Form1Location;
        Form1Location = this.Location;
        Form2 myform2 = new Form2(Form1Location);
        myform2.Show();

//Form2

 Point Form1Loc;
    public Form2(Point Form1LocationRef)
    {
        Form1Loc = Form1LocationRef;
        InitializeComponent();

    }

Upvotes: 1

MoonKnight
MoonKnight

Reputation: 23833

If you are accessing it from within the form itself then you can write 

int windowHeight = this.Height;
int windowWidth = this.Width;

to get the width and height of the window. And 

int windowTop = this.Top; 
int windowLeft = this.Left;

To get the screen position.

Otherwise, if you launch the form and are accessing it from another form

int w, h, t, l;
using (Form form = new Form())
{
    form.Show();
    w = form.Width;
    h = form.Height;
    t = form.Top;
    l = form.Left;
}

I hope this helps.

Upvotes: 21

B L
B L

Reputation: 1592

Use Form.Bounds.Top to get the "Y" coordinate and Form.Bounds.Left to get the "X" coordinate

Upvotes: 1

Paul J
Paul J

Reputation: 476

Also a combination of the Left and Top properties (e.g. this.Top from within the form)

Upvotes: 0

toby
toby

Reputation: 902

Form.Location.X and Form.Location.Y will give you the X and Y coordinates of the top left corner.

Upvotes: 7

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