Determine Browser Capabilities in ASP.NET

Category:

C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET

Type:

Snippets

Difficulty:

Beginning

Author:

Intelligent Solutions Inc.

Version Compatibility: ASP.NET

More information:

This code shows you how to use the .NET framework's HttpBrowserCapabilities class to query browser capabilities. This class provides a lot more information than the BrowserCapabilities object in ASP

. To run the code, cut and paste it into a text editor and save it to a file with an .aspx extension on a server with Visual Studio.NET and IIS 5.0 installed.

Originally developed for beta versions; verified to work in .NET Version 1.0, 03/25/02.

Instructions: Copy the declarations and code below and paste directly into your VB project.

Declarations:
' (None)

Code:

<%@ Page Language="vb" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.Web" %>

<title>Determining Browser Capabilities in ASP.NET: Demo</title>

Dim objBrowser As HTTPBrowserCapabilities
 objBrowser = Request.Browser

%>
Determining Browser Capabilities in ASP.NET: Demo
<TABLE>
<% With objBrowser %>
<tr><td>Browser type:</td><td><%=.Type %></td></tr>
<tr><td>Browser version:</td><td> <%=.Version%></td></tr>

<tr><td>Major version:</td><td> <%=.MajorVersion%></td></tr>
<tr><td>Minor version:</td><td> <%=.MajorVersion%></td></tr>
<tr><td>Platform:</td><td> <%=.Platform%></td></tr>
<tr><td>This is a Win16 Platform:</td><td> <%=iif(.Win16, "Yes", "No")%></td></tr>

<tr><td>This is a Win32 Platform:</td><td> <%=iif(.Win32, "Yes", "No")%></td></tr>

<tr><td>Tables Supported:</td><td> <%=iif(.Tables, "Yes", "No")%></td></tr>

<tr><td>Frames Supported:</td><td> <%=iif(.Frames, "Yes", "No")%></td></tr>
<tr><td>Background Sounds Supported:</td><td> <%=iif(.BackgroundSounds, "Yes", "No")%></td></tr>
<tr><td>Cookies Supported:</td><td> <%=iif(.Cookies, "Yes", "No")%></td></tr>
<tr><td>Java Script Supported:</td><td> <%=iif(.JavaScript, "Yes", "No")%></td></tr>
<tr><td>Java Applets Supported:</td><td> <%=iif(.JavaApplets, "Yes", "No")%></td></tr>
<tr><td>VB Script Supported:</td><td> <%=iif(.VBScript, "Yes", "No")%></td></tr>
<tr><td>Active X Controls Supported:</td><td> <%=iif(.ActiveXControls, "Yes", "No")%></td></tr>
<tr><td>AOL Client:</td><td> <%=iif(.AOL, "Yes", "No")%></td></tr>
<tr><td>Browser is a Search-Engine Crawler:</td><td> <%=iif(.Crawler, "Yes", "No")%></td></tr>
<tr><td>Browser is a Beta Version:</td><td> <%=iif(.Beta, "Yes", "No")%></td></tr>
<tr><td>Channel Definition Format Supported:</td><td> <%=iif(.CDF, "Yes", "No")%></td></tr>

<%End With %>

</table>
</body>
</html>