How to develpo the web based application that can be viewed on the mobile phone in asp.net(vs2008)

Question

sir I am the beginner of the asp.net,for my current project i need to develop a mobile web application using asp.net 3.5 that can be viewed on an Phone and all other browser what to support it, but there is no longer a template in VS2008 to enable mobile development. please give some more idea about that sir,Thank you.

Answer 1

You would need to create a page that is specific to each mobile browser you want to target, or create one that works on the lowest common feature set across all.

Using ASP.NET or any other server based framework should make any difference, it is more how you render it and what functionality you provide to the limited mobile browsers that is key.

Answer 2

Learn about General Mobile development at http://www.mobiforge.com/

For ASP.NET specific technologies look at http://mdbf.codeplex.com/

Details about using MDBF (with ASP.NET MVC - but the basics still apply) cand be found at: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/MixMobileWebSitesWithASPNETMVCAndTheMobileBrowserDefinitionFile.aspx or the video at http://videos.visitmix.com/MIX09/T20F.

Answer 3

For publishing mobile content from the same URL than web content you can use mobile phone detection software. Try:

http://www.moviladetection.com/

Answer 4

Hello

For VS2008 please use Web forms as all latest mobiles supports HTML. You need to customize your pages as per the capabilities of mobile device making request to the website.

We are using http://51degrees.codeplex.com/ it is free open source asp.net mobile api which helps is tracking whether request is coming from mobile devices and redirects user to mobile optimized .aspx pages without changing any existing web pages. It makes use of WURFL the most upto date mobile device database. Along with this it also gives you detailed capability information of mobile device making request which you can use to customize pages for each mobile device.

With this you can have same web address for both current and mobile websites.

Answer 5

Regarding Mobile Device Browser File:

Due to the organizational restructuring of the team that developed and supported the Mobile Device Browser file, we will no longer have the resources to support and update this CodePlex project. The team will be providing two more releases – one on the 27th July 2010 and the final release on the 24th August 2010.