We are building a Winform app on DotNetcore 6 but the app is not adjusting to different screen resolutions

Question

We are building a Winform app on DotNetcore 6 that need to work on laptops but the app is not adjusting to different screen resolutions even though we have utilized anchor and dock properties of the winform controls. Since the app works fine on resolution 1333*768 with 100% scaling and layout (image attached) . I am wondering whether that's possible to start the app in custom resolution all the time by writing c# program irrespective of the host system resolution? Is this something that is achievable

Answer 1

Hi @Sunny Sharma , Welcome to Microsoft Q&A.

There are 3 kinds of applications:

1. Not DPI aware
2. System DPI aware
3. Per monitor DPI aware

Related Document: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/hidpi/high-dpi-desktop-application-development-on-windows?redirectedfrom=MSDN#dpi-awareness-mode

You can set the DPI-awareness on your application in app.config:

<appSettings>  
    <add key="EnableWindowsFormsHighDpiAutoResizing" value="false" />  
</appSettings>  

and app.manifest:

<application xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3">  
  <windowsSettings>  
    <dpiAware xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SMI/2005/WindowsSettings">false</dpiAware>  
  </windowsSettings>  
</application>  

Best Regards,
Jiale

---

If the answer is the right solution, please click "Accept Answer" and kindly upvote it. If you have extra questions about this answer, please click "Comment".
Note: Please follow the steps in our documentation to enable e-mail notifications if you want to receive the related email notification for this thread.