Overview of the NET Mobile Architecture
The Mobile Internet Toolkit is built on the Microsoft ASP.NET Web Forms which we discuss in more detail in Chapter 3 . Just as the ASP.NET WebControls provide an improved level of cross browser platform independence in your applications, the Mobile Controls give you an improved level of cross-mobile, devie platform independence.The toolkit includes a set of Mobile Controls that is executed by the Mobile Internet Controls runtime during the execution phase. The key feature of the runtime is its...
Validation Controls
Quite a few validation controls are available in the Microsoft Mobile Internet Toolkit SDK CompareValidator Compares two controls using a specified operator. CustomValidator Allows customized validation of controls. RangeValidator Validates the value of a control to ensure that it falls within a specified range. RegularExpressionValidator Validates the value of a control by specifying a regular expression. RequiredFieldValidator Ensures that a field is supplied a value. ValidationSummary...
Installing Openwave SDK WAP Edition
You can download the Openwave SDK from the Openwave developer's Web site http developer.openwave.com.You have to register before you will be allowed to download the SDK. Two different editions of SDK are available, one is for Windows NT 2000 operating systems and the other one is for Windows 98 ME operating systems. No specific system requirements exist for running Openwave SDK, other than the correct operating system, which makes installation of Openwave easy and quick. It also does not...
Installing Ericsson WapIDE
To download WapIDE, point your browser to www.ericsson.com mobilityworld. Browse to Open Zone and choose Tools and Enablers from there, download the file for WapIDE 3.1.1 SDK WapIDE_311.zip .You will have to register before you can download this file. To run Ericsson WAP IDE, your system needs to meet the following requirements At least a Pentium II, 266 MHz with 128MB of RAM and 20MB free disk space Windows 98,Windows NT,Windows 2000 or higher Java 2 Platform, version 1.3.0 or later, which you...
Openwave SDK WAP Edition
The Openwave SDK WAP Edition 5.0 former versions known as UP.SDK is an all-new version of this popular simulator. Openwave and its previous edition combined together are the most popular simulating environments with the mobile developers. It has support for a wide variety of handsets including Alcatel, Ericsson, Motorola, and Openwave using Openwave Mobile Browser. For a complete list of phones supporting Openwave Mobile Browser, please refer to Unlike the old versions, this new version comes...
Using the MME Emulator
Start the MME Emulator from the shortcut on the Start menu.This will open two windows the main browser window containing the mobile phone emulator and the output window that will display various messages and debug information. When you first start the browser, you will be presented with the MME Info Page, which is accessed from the browser's local file system, as indicated by the info prefix in the URL see Figure 4.16 .The first thing you should do is browse some of the links off the home page...
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