Microsoft Mobile Internet Toolkit
(Andres Sanabria, Susan Chory)
This session looked at the Microsoft Mobile Internet Toolkit (MMIT), which
allows developers to create a Web application and make it available to a
variety of portable devices without re-writing it in WML or other mobile
device-specific languages.
It also gave an overview of how MMIT can help
developers go beyond this by tailoring content for specific devices – a
Pocket PC can run Flash animations, but your WAP-enabled mobile phone might
protest. There are several ‘device adaptor’ plug-ins available to take
advantage of specific mobile devices, from which Microsoft has made code
samples available.
MMIT integrates with Visual Studio.NET and
follows Visual Basic’s programming-style, providing you with a toolbar of
both familiar and new controls, such as ‘drop connection’.
Mobile applications are initially coded in an ASP
script page, then the appropriate mark-up language for a given device is
generated at runtime. Andres Sanabria gave a demonstration using Internet
Explorer and a mobile phone emulator. The source code looked like flawless
HTML and WML respectively. Any code specific to that device is also
activated. You can detect many features of target devices, such as screen
size, rendering details and browser versions.
You can download Beta 2 of Microsoft Mobile Internet Toolkit from
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/nextgen/technology/mitdefault.asp.
Feedback from using the Beta should be sent to
mwsdkbug@microsoft.com.
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