Screen.WorkingArea Property (System.Windows.Forms)

.NET Framework Class Library

Screen..::.WorkingArea Property

Gets the working area of the display. The working area is the desktop area of the display, excluding taskbars, docked windows, and docked tool bars.

Namespace: System.Windows.Forms
Assembly: System.Windows.Forms (in System.Windows.Forms.dll)

Syntax

Visual Basic (Declaration)

Public ReadOnly Property WorkingArea As Rectangle

Visual Basic (Usage)

Dim instance As Screen
Dim value As Rectangle

value = instance.WorkingArea

public Rectangle WorkingArea { get; }

Visual C++

public:
property Rectangle WorkingArea {
    Rectangle get ();
}

JScript

public function get WorkingArea () : Rectangle

Property Value

Type: System.Drawing..::.Rectangle
A Rectangle, representing the working area of the display.

Remarks

The working area is the desktop area of the display, excluding taskbars, docked windows, and docked tool bars.

WorkingArea will return the entire area of the screen if the Windows Taskbar is set to Auto-Hide, no matter whether the Taskbar is currently displayed or not.

Platforms

Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Starter Edition, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98, Windows CE, Windows Mobile for Smartphone, Windows Mobile for Pocket PC

The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

Version Information

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0

.NET Compact Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 2.0, 1.0

Reference

Screen Class

Screen Members

System.Windows.Forms Namespace

Rectangle