How can I find a custom GEO location using ASP.NET?

Question

How can I get the location of a GEO user in my ASP.NET application? I noticed that in browsers such as Firefox and Google Chrome, I (as a user) ask whether or not to allow access to the site for my location.

How can I achieve a similar thing?

Answer 1

The prompt you see is displayed when the site uses the geolocation API . All this is JavaScript, so you do not need any server support to use it. If you need server-side values, you can send them back using XMLHttpRequest or a simple form message.

There's a demo here with readable source code.

Answer 2

Use the usual HTML5 Geolocation tools to get the location, and then use AJAX to send the location back to your ASP.NET server side code and update any client items.