How to Detect new Microsoft browser “Edge” in asp.net

Question

In asp.net, using this construct, how might I detect the new Microsoft \"Edge\" browser?

    Dim wrkBrowser As String = \"\"
    Dim wrkBrowserType As String         


        

Answer 1

You need to check the UserAgent like this:

if (Regex.IsMatch(HttpContext.Request.UserAgent, @"Edge\/\d+"))
{
    wrkBrowser = "Edge"
}

If you're checking for multiple browsers be careful of the order you check as many browsers like to mention other browsers in their UserAgent string.

This is Edge's current User Agent String:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.79 Safari/537.36 Edge/14.14393