Why Mobile Web Form are not showing up in vs 2008

Question

User-1451187829 posted

I am using vs2008 team Edition and i want to develop mobile application by 
using " Mobile Web Form" as its availabe in Vs 2005
 
but "Mobile Web Form" are not showing up .When i want to add new item in asp.net
Empty web site ???
 
despite insalling all these features
 
Kindly Help me to get rid of it..
many thanks
 

 
I have installed "Windows Mobile 6 Standard SDK Refresh.msi" 
from this link 
 
(http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=6135[^])
 

and 
Active Syn 4.5 (" setup.msi") from this link 
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=15[^]

Answer 1

User-1635278332 posted

hope this helps..

http://geekswithblogs.net/ranganh/archive/2008/04/01/mobile-web-forms-in-visual-studio-2008.aspx

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/204950/krypton-form-not-showing-up-in-visual-studio-professional-2008

Answer 2

User1918766559 posted

Mobile Web Forms are quite deprecated in Visual Studio 2008 as you need to install the Mobile Web Forms templates seperately install in the project template folder of VS 2008.

Download the Mobile Web Template for VS 2008:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdevtools/archive/2007/09/17/tip-trick-asp-net-mobile-development-with-visual-studio-2008.aspx 

Steps of installation: http://riyadsthoughts.blogspot.com/2009/02/mobile-web-forms-in-visual-studio-2008.html

 

Thanks,

Anindita

http://anindita9.wordpress.com

Answer 3

User1943143334 posted

Hi,

Mobile Web Forms are depreciated!!! General ASP.NET Web applications works absolutely fine in all Mobile browsers! Some devices even support HTML 5!!!

You can add the following META tags for making your website mobile compatible!

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
<meta name="HandheldFriendly" content="true" />

You can check the below link for more information on ASP.NET Mobile web application development!

http://roopeshreddy.wordpress.com/2010/07/25/mobile-development-in-asp-net/

 

Hope it helps u...