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HttpCapabilitiesBase.Browser Property
Visual Studio 2010
Gets the browser string (if any) that was sent by the browser in the User-Agent request header.
Assembly: System.Web (in System.Web.dll)
The following code example shows how to determine the User-Agent request header sent by the browser.
<%@ 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 Function CheckBrowserCaps() Dim labelText As String = "" Dim myBrowserCaps As System.Web.HttpBrowserCapabilities = Request.Browser If (CType(myBrowserCaps, System.Web.Configuration.HttpCapabilitiesBase)).Browser.ToUpper().IndexOf("IE") >= 0 Then labelText = "Browser is Internet Explorer." Else labelText = "Browser is not Internet Explorer." End If Label1.Text = labelText End Function '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 SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2
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