How to detect Tablets in ASP.NET MVC Application - asp.net-mvc

Question

In ASP.NET MVC application how can I detect whether the user is using the Tablet device or the Mobile device?
Please I am looking for a no media queries solution.

Answer 1

There is nothing built-in for ASP.Net (you can test Request.UserAgent, but you need to know more info about specific device), you could detect the device client-side(with the help of something like web.wurfl.io) then parametrize your controllers, otherwise, if you are looking for a pure server-side solution, you could try WURFL => Wireless Universal Resource FiLe
WURFL is a Device Description Repository (DDR), i.e. a framework that
enables applications to map HTTP requests to a description of the
capability of the mobile device that requests the page. In this
regard, WURFL pre-dates the time when the DDR term was coined and
could arguably be caracterized as the first DDR. In the last year,
WURFL role has expended from being a DDR for mobile devices to being a
framework to detect every HTTP client worth recognizing.
Thanks to WURFL, mobile web sites and application can:
programmatically abstract away devices differences
avoid the need to modify applications whenever a new device ships
avoid the need to track new devices on the market
WURFL is a global database of all devices and the API to tap that
information programmatically.