Re: Web pages for mobile devices

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Thanks


Steven Cheng [MSFT] wrote:
Hi Cj,

As for ASP.NET Mobile Web application development, the information you found on the following site are most for old ASP.NET 1.x mobile web app dev:

http://www.asp.net/mobile/

I've ever recieved from questions about Mobile web application development from some other customers. Based on some discussion with the development team, I think currently, for server-side web application development, there will not produce any more Mobile specific/dedicated packages(like the original Mobile internet controls...). This is because these days, more and more smart device is supporting html/xhtml well and the original WAP only device is no longer the situation. Also, from ASP.NET 2.0, page/control is providing an adaptable model, that means you can write control adapter for different target device(html, wap or ....). That also makes it less useful to provide a mobile only control collecction.

In addition, currently, it is more encouraged to develop smart client application (rich client) for smart device instead of web application(since ASPX page is good enough for web application).

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead


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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:54:36 -0400
From: cj2 <cj2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Web pages for mobile devices

I saw a MS demo a few years back where they developed a web page and the software automatically rendered it for different devices. Is this what I'm looking for?

http://www.asp.net/mobile/

Much of the info looks old. I have a MSDN account where can I download it or is it already in VS 2008 and I just don't know how to find it?

I'm mainly interested in having simple pages render in Internet Explorer on our PCs and on blackberries but it would be great if it also was able to be accessed on other devices like Palm products or even just cell
phones.

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