Finding the overlapping area of two rectangles (in C#)

Question

Edit:

Simple code I used to solve the problem in case anyone is interested (thanks to Fredrik):

    int windowOverlap(Rectangle rect1, Rectangle rect         


        

Answer 1

Maybe I misinterpret your question, but doesn't the Rectangle.Intersect method do the job? It returns the intersecting area, and then you can easily calculate the area of it.

Answer 2

Sounds like basic Collision Detection. Have you looked at this page on Wikipedia?

Mike

edit: Fredrik make his response at the same time I made this one, his answer got my upvote ( :