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HttpCapabilitiesBase.PreferredImageMime Property

Returns the MIME type of the type of image content typically preferred by the browser.

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

'Declaration
Public Overridable ReadOnly Property PreferredImageMime As String
'Usage
Dim instance As HttpCapabilitiesBase 
Dim value As String 

value = instance.PreferredImageMime

Property Value

Type: System.String
The MIME type of the type of image content typically preferred by the browser. The default is image/gif.

The following code example shows how to determine the type of image typically preferred by a 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 myBrowserCaps As System.Web.HttpBrowserCapabilities = Request.Browser
        Label1.Text = "Browser prefers images to be of MIME type: " & (CType(myBrowserCaps, System.Web.Configuration.HttpCapabilitiesBase)).PreferredImageMime

    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, 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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