Re: Web pages for mobile devices

I took it from Steven's reply that those higher end phones like blackberries and phones of the near future are made to show normal web sites. I haven't gotten my blackberry yet so I really have to wonder how well it'll show a web site. I don't know what is being done these days but as more people in the company get blackberries and after hours support and notification of system problems continues to be a major concern I can see where a web app that could be accessed from the phone would be great for managing things on the go.

Steven are we right--just use standard asp.net controls?


Jeffry van de Vuurst wrote:
Hi Steven,

Just as cj2 I was also a bit confused about the state of mobile web
development with asp.net 2.0. I also found the outdated web page.

However, there's also up to date information on MSDN regarding mobile
controls, i.e. the System.Web.Mobile namespace:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.mobile.aspx

Furthermore, if you create a website in Visual Studio 2005 it
automaticall adds Mobile Web Forms to your toolbox and you can add
Mobile specific items to the project. Is this deprecated or still
relevant?

Or maybe in other words. If I want to build for newer mobile devices
(e.g. Windows Mobile 5/6, Blackberry, iPhone), can I just work with
the standard asp.net controls and don't worry about the specific
mobile controls?

Thanks,

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On 21 jul, 05:05, stch...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Steven Cheng [MSFT])
wrote:
Hi Cj,

As forASP.NETMobileWeb application development, the information you
found on the following site are most for oldASP.NET1.xmobileweb app dev:

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

I've ever recieved from questions aboutMobileweb 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 moreMobilespecific/dedicated packages(like the
originalMobileinternet 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, fromASP.NET2.0, 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 amobileonly 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).

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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:54:36 -0400
From: cj2 <c...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Web pages formobiledevices
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
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