Get UserAgent for user's default browser

What I would do (of course, this is a bit of an overkill here) is to include a web server and request an URL from this web server, thus getting the user agent.

I.e. roughly this would include:

1. Implement a web server inside the application, e.g. this one
2. Let the WebBrowser control call a local URL of the webserver (e.g. http://127.0.0.1:48384/test)
3. In the web server's request handler, store the user agent into a variable
4. Show this variable to the end user (e.g. in a Label control on your WinForm app or simply by sending a response back from the webserver.

I've successfully used the web server inside my applications several times. One example would by my HTML edit control over at the Code Project.

Try this(this is a simple function to check if the browser is of a handheld device)

string strUserAgent = Request.UserAgent.ToString().ToLower(); bool status = false; if (strUserAgent != null) { if (Request.Browser.IsMobileDevice == true || strUserAgent.Contains("iphone") || strUserAgent.Contains("blackberry") || strUserAgent.Contains("mobile") || strUserAgent.Contains("windows ce") || strUserAgent.Contains("opera mini") || strUserAgent.Contains("palm")) { status = true; } } 

Here is a pretty simple class to get and set UserAgent.

using System.Runtime.InteropServices; public static class UserAgent { [DllImport("urlmon.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Ansi)] private static extern int UrlMkGetSessionOption( int dwOption, StringBuilder pBuffer, int dwBufferLength, out int pdwBufferLength, int dwReserved); [DllImport("urlmon.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Ansi)] private static extern int UrlMkSetSessionOption( int dwOption, string pBuffer, int dwBufferLength, int dwReserved); const int URLMON_OPTION_USERAGENT = 0x10000001; const int URLMON_OPTION_USERAGENT_REFRESH = 0x10000002; const int URLMON_OPTION_URL_ENCODING = 0x10000004; public static string Value { get { StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(512); int returnLength; UrlMkGetSessionOption(URLMON_OPTION_USERAGENT, builder, builder.Capacity, out returnLength, 0); string value = builder.ToString(); return value; } set { UrlMkSetSessionOption(URLMON_OPTION_USERAGENT, value, value.Length, 0); } } } 

I had been looking for a decent way to get UserAgent from windows, as opposed to web, when I found Changing the user agent of the WebBrowser control Inspired by the DLLImport of urlmon.dll, I looked in pinvoke.net, and found: http://pinvoke.net/default.aspx/urlmon.UrlMkGetSessionOption

Called by:

namespace GetUserAgent { class Program { // The name of the program that was started by user // See: Assembly.GetEntryAssembly Method () // https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.reflection.assembly.getentryassembly.aspx public static string ExecName { get { // The name of the executable that was started by user return System.Reflection.Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().GetName().Name; } } static void Main(string[] args) { foreach (string arg in args) { if ((arg == "/?") || (arg == "-?") || (arg == "--help")) { Console.Out.WriteLine( "For /F \"tokens=*\" %%U In ('{0}') Do Set UserAgent=%%U", ExecName); return; } } string userAgent = UserAgent.Value; Console.Out.WriteLine(userAgent); } } } 

This generates the UserAgent value. Argument /? shows how to use it in a command script.