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HttpCapabilitiesBase.BackgroundSounds Property

Gets a value indicating whether the browser supports playing background sounds using the <bgsounds> HTML element.

Namespace:  System.Web.Configuration
Assembly:  System.Web (in System.Web.dll)

'Declaration
Public ReadOnly Property BackgroundSounds As Boolean
'Usage
Dim instance As HttpCapabilitiesBase 
Dim value As Boolean 

value = instance.BackgroundSounds

Property Value

Type: System.Boolean
true if the browser supports playing background sounds; otherwise, false. The default is false.

The following code example shows how to determine whether the browser supports playing background sounds.

<%@ page language="VB" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<script runat="server">
    Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
        CheckBrowserCaps()
    End Sub 

    Sub CheckBrowserCaps()

        Dim labelText As String = "" 
        Dim myBrowserCaps As System.Web.HttpBrowserCapabilities = Request.Browser
        If (CType(myBrowserCaps, System.Web.Configuration.HttpCapabilitiesBase)).BackgroundSounds Then
            labelText = "Browser supports BackgroundSounds" 
        Else
            labelText = "Browser does not support BackgroundSounds" 
        End If

        Label1.Text = labelText

    End Sub 'CheckBrowserCaps
</script>

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
    <title>Browser Capabilities Sample</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form runat="server" id="form1">
        <div>
            Browser Capabilities:
            <p/><asp:Label ID="Label1" Runat="server" />
        </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Starter Edition, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98

The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0
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