Monitor ID and Serial Number

Question

In Windows we have information about our Monitros - some unique name and id. e.g.

1. Acer xxx
2. Samsung xxx

I have qeuestion how to get the

Answer 1

Give this a shot:

using System.Management;

ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher("root\\CIMV2", "SELECT * FROM Win32_DesktopMonitor");     
foreach (ManagementObject obj in searcher.Get())
    Console.WriteLine("Description: {0}", obj ["Description"]);

EDIT:

And here's a link to a nice looking class that will retrieve the monitor details:

http://wmimonitor.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/wmimonitor/DisplayInfoWMIProvider/WMIProvider/WMIProvider.cs?view=markup

Here is the class associated with the above link. It should give you everything you need about the monitor:

//DisplayInfoWMIProvider (c) 2009 by Roger Zander

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Management.Instrumentation;
using System.DirectoryServices;
using System.Management;
//using System.Security.Principal;
using Microsoft.Win32;
using System.Text;

using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Linq;            

[assembly: WmiConfiguration(@"root\cimv2", HostingModel = ManagementHostingModel.LocalSystem)]
namespace DisplayInfoWMIProvider
{
    [System.ComponentModel.RunInstaller(true)]
    public class MyInstall : DefaultManagementInstaller
    {
        public override void Install(IDictionary stateSaver)
        {
            base.Install(stateSaver);
            System.Runtime.InteropServices.RegistrationServices RS = new System.Runtime.InteropServices.RegistrationServices();

            //This should be fixed with .NET 3.5 SP1
            //RS.RegisterAssembly(System.Reflection.Assembly.LoadFile(Environment.ExpandEnvironmentVariables(@"%PROGRAMFILES%\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\v3.5\System.Management.Instrumentation.dll")), System.Runtime.InteropServices.AssemblyRegistrationFlags.SetCodeBase);
        }

        public override void Uninstall(IDictionary savedState)
        {

            try
            {
                ManagementClass MC = new ManagementClass(@"root\cimv2:Win32_MonitorDetails");
                MC.Delete();
            }
            catch { }

            try
            {
                base.Uninstall(savedState);
            }
            catch { }
        }
    }

    [ManagementEntity(Name = "Win32_MonitorDetails")]
    public class DisplayDetails
    {
        [ManagementKey]
        public string PnPID { get; set; }

        [ManagementProbe]
        public string SerialNumber { get; set; }

        [ManagementProbe]
        public string Model { get; set; }

        [ManagementProbe]
        public string MonitorID { get; set; }

        /// 

        /// The Constructor to create a new instances of the DisplayDetails class...
        /// 
        public DisplayDetails(string sPnPID, string sSerialNumber, string sModel, string sMonitorID)
        {
            PnPID = sPnPID;
            SerialNumber = sSerialNumber;
            Model = sModel;
            MonitorID = sMonitorID;
        }

        /// 

        /// This Function returns all Monitor Details
        /// 
        /// 
        [ManagementEnumerator]
        static public IEnumerable GetMonitorDetails()
        {
            //Open the Display Reg-Key
            RegistryKey Display = Registry.LocalMachine;
            Boolean bFailed = false;
            try
            {
                Display = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(@"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\DISPLAY");
            }
            catch
            {
                bFailed = true;
            }

            if (!bFailed & (Display != null))
            {

                //Get all MonitorIDss
                foreach (string sMonitorID in Display.GetSubKeyNames())
                {
                    RegistryKey MonitorID = Display.OpenSubKey(sMonitorID);

                    if (MonitorID != null)
                    {
                        //Get all Plug&Play ID's
                        foreach (string sPNPID in MonitorID.GetSubKeyNames())
                        {
                            RegistryKey PnPID = MonitorID.OpenSubKey(sPNPID);
                            if (PnPID != null)
                            {
                                string[] sSubkeys = PnPID.GetSubKeyNames();

                                //Check if Monitor is active
                                if (sSubkeys.Contains("Control"))
                                {
                                    if (sSubkeys.Contains("Device Parameters"))
                                    {
                                        RegistryKey DevParam = PnPID.OpenSubKey("Device Parameters");
                                        string sSerial = "";
                                        string sModel = "";

                                        //Define Search Keys
                                        string sSerFind = new string(new char[] { (char)00, (char)00, (char)00, (char)0xff });
                                        string sModFind = new string(new char[] { (char)00, (char)00, (char)00, (char)0xfc });

                                        //Get the EDID code
                                        byte[] bObj = DevParam.GetValue("EDID", null) as byte[];
                                        if (bObj != null)
                                        {
                                            //Get the 4 Vesa descriptor blocks
                                            string[] sDescriptor = new string[4];
                                            sDescriptor[0] = Encoding.Default.GetString(bObj, 0x36, 18);
                                            sDescriptor[1] = Encoding.Default.GetString(bObj, 0x48, 18);
                                            sDescriptor[2] = Encoding.Default.GetString(bObj, 0x5A, 18);
                                            sDescriptor[3] = Encoding.Default.GetString(bObj, 0x6C, 18);

                                            //Search the Keys
                                            foreach (string sDesc in sDescriptor)
                                            {
                                                if (sDesc.Contains(sSerFind))
                                                {
                                                    sSerial = sDesc.Substring(4).Replace("\0", "").Trim();
                                                }
                                                if (sDesc.Contains(sModFind))
                                                {
                                                    sModel = sDesc.Substring(4).Replace("\0", "").Trim();
                                                }
                                            }


                                        }
                                        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(sPNPID + sSerFind + sModel + sMonitorID))
                                        {
                                            yield return new DisplayDetails(sPNPID, sSerial, sModel, sMonitorID);
                                        }
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}