Borderless window application takes up more space

Question

I have created a borderless application in WPF, and it works pretty good. However, when I set the WindowState to full screen, the application takes up more space than my screen resolution, so there are some pixels outside the screen in all directions! (looks like some hard coded negative margins are added to hide the default border)

Any Ideas how to prevent this from happening?

My xaml:

<Window x:Class="MyApp.Shell"
    WindowStyle="None"
    BorderThickness="0"
    AllowsTransparency="True"
    Background="Transparent"
    ResizeMode="CanResizeWithGrip"
    WindowState="{Binding MainApplicationWindowState}"
    ...

Also, another problem I have seen is that the Windows toolbar / taskbar is covered in the fullsize state, so it looks like the "actual" screen height is used and not the "available" screen height, meaning screen height minus the windows toolbar / taskbar!

Anyone found a solution to these issues?

Thanks

Answer 1

I solved the problem this way:

XAML:

WindowStyle="None"
Left="0"
Top="0"
Width="{Binding WPFSettings.Width}"
Height="{Binding WPFSettings.Height}">

Visual Basic:

Public Class WPFSettings
   Public ReadOnly Property Width() As Double
      Get
         Return System.Windows.SystemParameters.PrimaryScreenWidth
      End Get
   End Property

   Public ReadOnly Property Height() As Double
      Get
         Return System.Windows.SystemParameters.PrimaryScreenHeight
      End Get
   End Property
End Class

It works pretty good.

Answer 2

Try this

Width="{Binding Source={x:Static SystemParameters.WorkArea}, Path=Width}"
Height="{Binding Source={x:Static SystemParameters.WorkArea}, Path=Height}"