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HttpCapabilitiesBase.CanSendMail Property
Visual Studio 2010
Gets a value indicating whether the browser supports sending e-mail by using the HTML <mailto> element for displaying electronic addresses.
Assembly: System.Web (in System.Web.dll)
Property Value
Type: System.Booleantrue if the browser supports sending e-mail by using the HTML <mailto> element for displaying electronic addresses; otherwise, false. The default is true.
The following code example shows how to determine whether the browser supports sending e-mail by using the HTML <mailto> element for displaying electronic addresses.
<%@ 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)).CanSendMail Then labelText = "Browser can send e-mail." Else labelText = "Browser cannot send e-mail." 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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