get monitor friendly name with winapi

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I want get monitor name as in control panel. I use this code

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DISPLAY_DEVICE lpDisplayDevice = new DISPLAY_DEVICE(0); // OUT
DISPLAY_DEVICE monitor_name = new DISPLAY_DEVICE(0);
int devNum = 0;
while (EnumDisplayDevices(null, (uint)devNum, ref lpDisplayDevice, 0))
  {
     lpDisplayDevice.DeviceName.Trim());
     Console.WriteLine("DeviceString =" + lpDisplayDevice.DeviceString.Trim());
     EnumDisplayDevices(lpDisplayDevice.DeviceName, 0, ref monitor_name, 0);
     Console.WriteLine("Monitor name =" + monitor_name.DeviceString.Trim());
      ++devNum;
 }

but this return me \\.\DISPLAY4 . I watch this topic url msdn[^] but find solution only in c language.

Posted 16-Oct-14 18:57pm

Radzhab

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Garth J Lancaster · Answer 1 · 2014-10-16T19:20:00

Solution 1

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but find solution only in c language

ok, lets assume for the moment that that's all there is .. you could wrap the c language parts into a dll and pinvoke it couldn't you ?

else, since the c code is likely just calling win32 api's anyway, pinvoke them from c# ?

Posted 16-Oct-14 19:20pm

Garth J Lancaster

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[no name] 17-Oct-14 2:21am

yes. i want use pinvoke

Garth J Lancaster 17-Oct-14 2:27am

have a look at GalaticJello's response here (he has two ways of doing it) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18832991/enumdisplaydevices-not-returning-anything

Garth J Lancaster 17-Oct-14 2:28am

update : this may also be of use http://justlikeamagic.com/2009/05/21/changing-display-settings-programmatically/

[no name] 17-Oct-14 3:03am

thank you very much, but this threads dont help(

Bernhard Hiller · Answer 2 · 2014-10-16T22:10:00

Solution 2

Why don't you try Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)? That could be much easier (but true: on some comuters, WMI is defect and needs to be repaired...).

Posted 16-Oct-14 22:10pm

Bernhard Hiller

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[no name] 17-Oct-14 6:33am

its not get monitor name.