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Creating Mobile ASP.NET Applications

Apart from developing device-based applications to be individually distributed and deployed to the device, the Web mechanism of application access through a browser has always been there with devices that are wirelessly connected either through a local area wireless network (such as networks utilizing products based on 802.11b and the like) or more cellular or data networks, which are typically wide area networks (WANs). Such devices (such as phones and PDAs) often have a browser that allows similar Web browsing capability, but in a limited fashion. In some scenarios, markup languages other than HTML (for instance WML—Wireless Markup Language) must be developed so that the browsers can appropriately render ...