HttpCapabilitiesBase.Platform Property

 

Gets the name of the platform that the client uses, if it is known.

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

Public ReadOnly Property Platform As String

Property Value

Type: System.String

The operating system that the client uses, if it is known, otherwise the value is set to Unknown.

Some of the possible values for the Platform property are as follows:

  • Unknown

  • Win95

  • Win98

  • Windows NT 5.0 (Windows 2000)

  • Windows NT 5.1 (Windows XP)

  • WinNT (all other versions of Windows NT)

  • Win16

  • WinCE

  • Mac68K

  • MacPPC

  • UNIX

  • WebTV

The following code example shows how to determine whether the browser is running on the Windows NT platform.

<%@ 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)).Platform.Equals("WinNT") Then
            labelText = "Platform is Windows NT."
        Else
            labelText = "Platform is not Windows NT."
        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>

.NET Framework
Available since 2.0
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