Get Exact Monitor/Display/Screen Name

问题

I have a program where user chooses destination monitor but I just can't get the real monitor name/model.

I have already tried the following:

• Screen.AllScreens is of no use;
• WMI and Win32 EnumDisplayDevices both returns Generic PnP Monitor;
• Device Manager also shows Generic PnP Monitor...

In explorer there are the actual names of monitors attached and in Everest, it shows even more depth in details...

From where these 2 programs gets those information? The last option I ran into is to parse EDID from registry ... has anyone tried this and did it work?

回答1:

Well, this question is old, however, as for the sake of google redirects, I suggest the 'WindowsDisplayAPI' library.

https://www.nuget.org/packages/WindowsDisplayAPI

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Using the library, there are multiple ways to get the display name. The simplest way is:

foreach (var display in Display.GetDisplays())
{
    Console.WriteLine(display.DeviceName);
}

But this is using the old API, if you are sure that your program targets at least Windows Vista, I suggest the following code:

foreach (var target in DisplayConfig.PathDisplayTarget.GetDisplayTargets())
{
    Console.WriteLine(target.FriendlyName);
}

回答2:

Looks like this might have already been answered in a different question: How do i get the actual monitor name as seen in the resolution dialog

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14989079/get-exact-monitor-display-screen-name