Craig Deelsnyder
8/3/2003 4:49:00 PM
You can use the same pages, assuming they fit the screen. One thing you'll
run into is that the default way viewstate is stored will not work. The
viewstate in normal ASP.NET is too large of a string for the hidden field
used in the page. Pocket IE will choke on it. Search aspalliance.com for
Paul Wilson's articles. He wrote one on how to alter where viewstate is
stored; you could store it to session, although if you allow the user to hit
the back button, this may not be ideal, as only one previous viewstate is
available (whereas normally it's in the page).
This is the main limitation. MMIT was built to deal with this and other
limitations, and hence is the preferred way of doing this. But you'll
notice it doesn't have a DataGrid, e.g. (last time I worked with it), but
you can in fact use one if you override the viewstate problem and use a
normal ASP.NET datagrid.
If you've really abstracted your pages correctly, you should be able to
maintain two sets of pages with minimal overhead. I must warn you though,
PocketIE has other bugs with tabbing/focus, etc. that are somewhat painful
to deal with, depending on how picky your users are.
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Craig Deelsnyder
Microsoft MVP - ASP/ASP.NET
"jeff" <vader1000x@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I have a .net web application (aspx) written in vb.net language. all of
the
> controls are server-side and all the code is server-side. the pages work
> great on any pc. i want to know if this can be used on a PDA? using a
> pocket PC 2002 PDA, the page initially comes up just fine, however
whenever
> we click any button or perform any interaction, there are errors reported.
> is it possible to make it work on the PDA in the current format?
>
> if it is not possible to do it this way, what is required to port it to
the
> mobile web pages? is it typically a simple transition? if i were to do
> this, i would still need to keep the primary web sites available as
standard
> web pages. does this become a maintenance nightmare (ie, having to always
> make changes twice for PDA and standard web pages)?
>
> any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> jeff
>
>