Introduction
ASP.NET provides an extensible mechanism for identifying a mobile client device, and for making the information available to the ASP.NET page framework and the ASP.NET mobile Web application. Like the HttpBrowserCapabilities
class, the MobileCapabilities
class provides information about the browser making the request. This article explains how you can display all capabilities using reflection, and how you can use them to customize your application for specific mobile devices.
Background
The MobileCapabilities
class extends the HttpBrowserCapabilities
class. The MobileCapabilities
class offers a large number of read-only properties that provide type-safe access to the Browser
object's capabilities dictionary.
You can use the Browser
property of the HttpRequest
object to point to an instance of a MobileCapabilities
object, which can then be used to read the capabilities of the requesting browser and device.
Using the code
You can access a lot of information about the browser if your browser is correctly identified using <browsercap>
section in machine.config.
System.Web.Mobile.MobileCapabilities currentCapabilities;
MobileCapabilities currentCapabilities = (MobileCapabilities)Request.Browser;
string preferredRenderingMIME=currentCapabilities.PreferredRenderingMIME;
Sample code uses System.Reflection
to display all properties of MobileCapabilities
class.
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