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Chapter 9. .NET and Mobile Devices

The increased use by employees of devices other than traditional PCs
and laptops, such as personal digital assistants (PDAs) and
web-enabled phones, has increased pressure on corporate IT
departments to open corporate databases and intranets to a range of
non-standard devices. The explosion in use of these devices, and the
proliferation of embedded systems and specialized network protocols,
has made it important for developers to design their applications in
ways that keep it independent of the clients that will access it.

.NET embraces mobile device users and offers developers tools to meet
their needs in two ways:

ASP.NET Mobile Controls

Mobile Controls are web server controls that dynamically generate
code that renders web content appropriately on devices such as
web-enabled phones and PDAs as well as traditional web browsers.

.NET Compact Framework

The .NET Compact Framework is a version of the .NET Platform that
runs on Windows CE or Pocket PC mobile devices and can be used to
develop clients and applications that run on the devices themselves.

Both ASP.NET Mobile Controls and the .NET Compact Framework are
supported by Visual Studio .NET 2003.[1]

[1] In Version 1.0
of the .NET Framework, you have to download separate packages to
write ASP.NET mobile applications or applications for smart
devices.