Request.Browser.Platform not returning iPad, OSX, or Windows7

asp.netbrowser-detection

I'm working on some advanced browser detection, and I've downloaded the MDBF browser file from CodePlex.

Unfortunately my Request.Browser.Platform, along with a few other things is returning "Unknown" on both my iPad Mac OSX (Snow Leopard) and on Windows7

Does anyone know of a good advanced .browser file out there that does the same thing for non mobile devices as the MDBF does for mobile devices?

Best Answer

I've solved my particular issue (detecting iPad) with the following file in my application's App_Browsers folder:

<browsers>
  <!-- Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 4_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C134 Safari/6533.18.5 -->
  <gateway id="IPad" parentID="Safari">
    <identification>
      <userAgent match="iPad" />
    </identification>

    <capabilities>
      <capability name="mobileDeviceModel"               value="IPad" />
      <capability name="mobileDeviceManufacturer"        value="Apple" />
      <capability name="isMobileDevice"                  value="true" />
    </capabilities>
  </gateway>
</browsers>

Then in the code I test:

if (Request.Browser.MobileDeviceModel == "IPad")
  ...
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