screen resolution detection

[Guest]

After exhausting my search on the MS website, I can't find a straight answer.
I fin dit hard to believe that MS left our something so useful in ASP.NET as
screen resolution detection.

Problem:
I would like to detect, get values for, the screen resolution in px but in a
code behind. Is this possible?

There is a System.Windows.Forms.Screen class for the Windows client side,
why are there none for browser/ASP.NET client?

thank you.

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

After exhausting my search on the MS website, I can't find a straight answer.
I fin dit hard to believe that MS left our something so useful in ASP.NET as
screen resolution detection.

Problem:
I would like to detect, get values for, the screen resolution in px but in a
code behind. Is this possible?

There is a System.Windows.Forms.Screen class for the Windows client side,
why are there none for browser/ASP.NET client?

Because browsers don't generally (AFAIK) pass the screen resolution in
requests?

 

[Guest]

So we are reduced to client side Javascript. Can those values be accessible
via the ASPX page code behind? I use VB.

I know that products like Browser Hawk access them and make available that
information via their objects. So there must be a better way to do this.

 

[Patrice]

You could get the value client side using js and pass the value as an hidden
field.

Do you want to use this value for something else than statistics ?

Patrice

 

[Guest]

pass via hidden field? Using to update the attribute of a button to open a
new window (page) in a certain size based on user screen resolution. I've
found that the Javascript window.open uses only pixels and that I'd rather
use percent % since screen resolution has not been determined but JavaScript
window.open does not allow that.

 

[Patrice]

If you really need you could likely open the window with whatever size you
want and resize the window once opened. This way you won't need this info
server side. I believe we have done this once.

Patrice

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