Fullscreen app in wince 6.0 c#

c#, fullscreen, visual-studio-2008, windows-ce, windows-mobile

Solution

After hiding the task bar, explicitly set the size and position of your Form:

myForm.Width = Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Width;
myForm.Height = Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Height;
myForm.Left = 0;
myForm.Top = 0;

Problem

I have my app and want to make it run in full-screen mode, no task-bar. I found out how to hide the windows bar but when I start my app it doesn't cover the space of the windows task-bar, despite this last is hidden. I found this but it didn't work. I couldn't find examples of this regarding to wince. I have FormBorderStyle = None, and WindowsState = Maximized SOLUTION: I find a way of doing it. An important tip is to have the WindowState = Normal(it took me some time to find this problem). If you have WindowState = Maximized you can't set the Form's height to the maximum display's height. I wrote this code to probe it and it work ok. Is a Form with two buttons: button1(fullscreen) and button2(restore default screen) ``` public partial class Form1 : Form { public Form1(){ InitializeComponent(); } [DllImport("Coredll")] internal static extern IntPtr FindWindow(String lpClassName, String lpWindowName); [DllImport("coredll.dll")] internal static extern bool EnableWindow(IntPtr hwnd, Boolean bEnable); [DllImport("coredll.dll")] private static extern bool MoveWindow(IntPtr hWnd, int x, int y, int cx, int cy, bool repaint); public static bool EnableTaskBar(Boolean enable) { IntPtr hwnd; hwnd = FindWindow("HHTaskBar", ""); if (enable) SetHHTaskBar(); else HideHHTaskBar(); return EnableWindow(hwnd, enable); } public static void HideHHTaskBar() { IntPtr iptrTB = FindWindow("HHTaskBar", null); MoveWindow(iptrTB, 0, Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Height, Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Width, 26, true); } public static void SetHHTaskBar() { IntPtr iptrTB = FindWindow("HHTaskBar", null); MoveWindow(iptrTB, 0, 294, Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Width, 26, true); } private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { EnableTaskBar(false); this.Width = Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Width; this.Height = Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Height; this.Left = 0; this.Top = 0; } private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { EnableTaskBar(true); } } ``` Hope it helps others with the same problem! Thanks for the help!

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