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        Making C# web apps work on mobile devices

        Doug | Date: May 8, 2006 | Comments: 1



        More and more mobile software applications are becoming web based, but desktop web applications don't always map well to mobile devices, according to an article at DevSource that demonstrates how C# web applications can be fairly easily converted to run in a mobile environment, with "some limitations."




        Author Jesse Smith explains how to "pick apart" an existing C# application, translating the most common controls, attributes, and properties to run on the current generation of mobile devices.

        The first step, according to Smith, is a minor modification to page declarations so that they inherit the necessary mobile control classes. Next there are some changes to the syntax of the form tag. Finally, there are some syntactical changes to control declarations reflecting the limitations inherent in the mobile environment.

        Read the DevSource article here.



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