Get and Set Screen Resolution

For retrieving the screen resolution, you're going to want to use the System.Windows.Forms.Screen class. The Screen.AllScreens property can be used to access a collection of all of the displays on the system, or you can use the Screen.PrimaryScreen property to access the primary display.

The Screen class has a property called Bounds, which you can use to determine the resolution of the current instance of the class. For example, to determine the resolution of the current screen:

Rectangle resolution = Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds;

For changing the resolution, things get a little more complicated. This article (or this one) provides a detailed implementation and explanation. Hope this helps.

This code will work perfectly in WPF. You can use it in either page load or in button click.

      string screenWidth =System.Windows.SystemParameters.PrimaryScreenWidth.ToString();

      string screenHeight = System.Windows.SystemParameters.PrimaryScreenHeight.ToString();

      txtResolution.Text ="Resolution : "+screenWidth + " X " + screenHeight;

In C# this is how to get the resolution Screen:

button click or form load:

string screenWidth = Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Width.ToString();
string screenHeight = Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Height.ToString();
Label1.Text = ("Resolution: " + screenWidth + "x" + screenHeight);

in Winforms, there is a Screen class you can use to get data about screen dimensions and color depth for all displays connected to the computer. Here's the docs page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.screen.aspx

CHANGING the screen resolution is trickier. There is a Resolution third party class that wraps the native code you'd otherwise hook into. Use its CResolution nested class to set the screen resolution to a new height and width; but understand that doing this will only work for height/width combinations the display actually supports (800x600, 1024x768, etc, not 817x435).