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How to determine the clients .NET framework version in a web application?

Asked 2010-03-18T08:03:26.333
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I need to determine the clients .NET framework version in my web application. I'm running in partial trust so I can not read the filesystem or registry (Is there an easy way to check .net framework verison using C#?).

  • System.Environment.Version returns the runtime version, so I can not use that.

  • I cannot use javascript

The only way I can think of at the moment is to try to load a .NET 3.5 dll and catch an exception, but this does not sound very nice.

Any suggestions?

Update:

Request.Browser.ClrVersion and Request.Browser.GetClrVersions() will return the .NET framework version(s) installed on the client.

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You can use the Request.Browser.ClrVersion property to get the client's highest .NET version and Request.Browser.GetClrVersions() method to get all the installed .NET versions.

These methods simply parse the Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_USER_AGENT") server variable.

But please note that a browser (or user or hacker) may put anything he wishes in the string, so you won't have 100% accuracy.

answered 2010-03-19T07:13:08.793

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