Having a powerful, flexible framework that
provides an abstraction layer between application design and device-specific rendering can
mean the difference between success and failure for a mobile development project.
Working in Visual Studio 2008
The mobile controls framework shipped soon after .NET Framework 1.0 as the Mobile Internet
Toolkit and was later incorporated into .NET Framework 1.1. The mobile web forms and mobile
controls have been brought forward with each new version of the .NET Framework. For Visual
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Studio 2008, please review the following MSDN blog post on working with the mobile controls
for more information:
http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2007/09/17/
tip-trick-asp-net-mobile-development-with-visual-studio-2008.aspx
The blog post has a download containing project and item templates for the mobile controls
so that you can work with the mobile controls in Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Studio 2008.
To get started with a new project in Visual Studio 2008, follow the instructions at the preceding
link as well as the instructions in the download to set up the templates. After the templates are
installed, create an ASP.NET web application project by launching Visual Studio 2008 and
selecting File ??¤ New ??¤ Project and then selecting Web Application.
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