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HttpCapabilitiesBase.MajorVersion Property

Visual Studio 2010

Gets the major (integer) version number of the browser.

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

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public int MajorVersion { get; }

Property Value

Type: System.Int32
The major version number of the browser.

ExceptionCondition
Exception

The major version value is not an integer.

The following code example adds the major and minor (integer and decimal) values of the browser version number and sends the result to browser.

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<%@ page language="C#"%>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<script runat="server">
    void Page_Load(Object Sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        CheckBrowserCaps();
    }

    void CheckBrowserCaps()
    {
        System.Web.HttpBrowserCapabilities myBrowserCaps = Request.Browser;
        Label1.Text = "Your Browser's Major version is " + ((System.Web.Configuration.HttpCapabilitiesBase)myBrowserCaps).MajorVersion;
    }
</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>

.NET Framework

Supported in: 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0

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

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