I have a web project created in VS 2008 with VB.NET
The mininum browser we are planning to support is IE8 or above. We would like to be able to automatically detect if Google Chrome is installed on a client’s machine, and if not, point to the website for installation. Is this possible?
Nope. Your browser is pretty much a sandbox.
The only way to know if someone has Chrome is for them to visit it inside Chrome.