Get Browser Information In Silverlight

While writing Silverlight you may come across a need to get information about host browsers within your application. In Silverlight this information is exposed by BrowserInformation class within System.Windows.Browser namespace. BrowserInformation can be accessed through HtmlPage class which also lives in System.Windows.Browser namespace. Here is an example where I am retrieving information about the browser.

<StackPanel x:Name="LayoutRoot"
            Margin="10"
            Background="PaleGoldenrod">

  <StackPanel.Resources>
    <Style x:Key="TextBlockStyle"
           TargetType="TextBlock">
             <Setter
               Property="FontSize"
               Value="14" />
             </Style>
  </StackPanel.Resources>

  <TextBlock
    Text="Information about your browser"
    HorizontalAlignment="Center"
    Style="{StaticResource TextBlockStyle}" />
  <controls:WrapPanel>
    <TextBlock
      Text="You are using "
      Style="{StaticResource TextBlockStyle}"/>
    <TextBlock
      Text="{Binding Name}"
      Style="{StaticResource TextBlockStyle}" />
    <TextBlock
      Text=". Version "
      Style="{StaticResource TextBlockStyle}" />
    <TextBlock
      Text="{Binding BrowserVersion}"
      Style="{StaticResource TextBlockStyle}" />
    <TextBlock
      Text="Your platform is "
      Style="{StaticResource TextBlockStyle}"/>
    <TextBlock
      Text="{Binding Platform}"
      Style="{StaticResource TextBlockStyle}"/>
  </controls:WrapPanel>
</StackPanel>

We also need to assign a DataContext for our StackPanel to BrowserInformation object.

LayoutRoot.DataContext =
  System.Windows.Browser.HtmlPage.BrowserInformation;

And the output on my machine is.