Mobile Development
Mobile development tips
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New Mobile View Engines for ASP.NET MVC 3, spec-compatible with ASP.NET MVC 4
Today i have been playing with view engines for MVC3 and I found this great update by Scott Hanselman, which is an upgrade to the demo that was shown at Tech Ed 2011 USA. Following this was straight forward and produced results straight away for the IPhone, but the IPad would not be seen as a mobile device and so more investigation to get this to work was nessecary. The answer is in Scotts blog with the lite version of 51Degrees.mobi and i will post the setup required for this next. http://www.hanselman.com/blog/NuGetPackageOfTheWeek10NewMobileViewEnginesForASPNETMVC3SpeccompatibleWithASPNETMVC4.aspx
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Improving device detection using the 51Degrees.Mobi package
This is a reposting of information found in Steve Sanderson post a link to the complete article is below. using-51degreesmobi-foundation-for-accurate-mobile-browser-detection-on-aspnet-mvc-3/ 51Degrees.Mobi Foundation is an open source .NET project that enhances Request.Browser so it gets its information from Wireless Universal Resource File (WURFL) – one of the most comprehensive and up-to-date databases of mobile device information. The great news is that 51Degrees.Mobi Foundation is now available as a NuGet package, so it’s incredibly easy to install and update. If you haven’t already installed the NuGet package manager, do so right away! Next, install 51Degrees by entering the following into the NuGet Package Manager Console: Install-Package 51Degrees.mobi Easy! This does the following…