Re: Web pages for mobile devices

thanks Steven

Steven Cheng [MSFT] wrote:
Hi Cj and Jeffry,

Sure, you can build a standard ASP.NET web application for your mobile devices. The important point is that you need to verify your potential client devices and ensure they support html/xhtml. If that's not a problem, ASP.NET standard website works pretty well(the default html adapter).

Actually, even for non-html devices, you cannot extend those standard ASP.NET control via the control adapters:

#Extreme ASP.NET Control Adapters
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163543.aspx

http://www.ddj.com/web-development/201202758

you can create different adapters for standard ASP.NET controls so that they'll output different kind of markup depend on the client device. Also, the original mobile control's source code has been opened for this so that the developers can refer to how to implement such adapter:

#ASP.NET Mobile Controls XHTML Adapter Source
http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9642963F-7C8D-4B26-
A440-400E03CED4CB&displaylang=en

Sincerely,

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Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:26:30 -0400
From: cj2 <cj2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: 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 I also found the outdated web page.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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