I have an application I'm trying to write where the primary monitor will have a form that controls a form on the extended monitor. What I'd like to do is on the primary monitor's form, be able to view a smaller image in real-time (show the mouse and everything) of what's on the extended monitor. Is this possible?
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View Extended Monitor on Primary Monitor
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Well, there are lots of code examples out there for screen captures in .Net. I suppose you could do that at recurring intervals and display it on your controlling form, but I don't know about getting the mouse with it. Maybe look into leveraging an open source VNC project, but there really isn't a straightforward way to do this in .Net as far as I know.
If it is just an extended monitor situation then you should first see if your graphics card will just mirror. Most that do dual screens will. Actually I've never had one that wouldn't, but it could be possible. Really you would just be making the situation overly complicated.
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Well in my situation I can't just mirror the screen because the forms on each monitor have to be different. I found some code that works much like the Microsoft Magnifier and it seems to be doing the job, except that you can't see the mouse pointer but, oh well, I can get around that. What I need to do now is make my form & other form items rotate......guess I'll keep looking for that one....
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