Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Special Edition

Chapter 28. Mobile Development

We are entering an era of mobile applications. Mobile devices are getting better, faster, and cheaper every year. The bandwidth on these devices has improved significantly over the last few years and will continue to improve by leaps and bounds. Businesses are continually finding newer and more exciting ways to provide applications on mobile devices. If you haven't yet had the opportunity to program mobile Web applications, you can be sure that your time will come sooner than you might expect.

This book wouldn't be complete without a chapter showing you how to create mobile Web applications using ASP.NET 2.0. This chapter starts with the basics of mobile Web application development and goes deep enough to make you feel comfortable about starting your next mobile Web development project. The chapter first discusses how Visual Studio helps with the creation of mobile Web applications. It then shows you all available mobile Web controls and teaches you the appropriate ways of using them in your applications. Finally, you learn how to develop device-specific properties and manage ViewState and Sessions.

Creating a NEW ASP.NET Mobile Web Application

Visual Studio provides very powerful and user-friendly tools for creating mobile Web applications. If you are familiar with how to create a typical ASP.NET application with Visual Studio, you already know a lot about creating mobile Web applications. You simply create a Web site project and add a Mobile Web Form ...