Adding New Device Adapters and Device Support 

Device manufacturers, independent software vendors (ISVs), and developers requiring device adapters for device-specific rendering of their ASP.NET mobile controls can all use ASP.NET mobile extensibility features to take advantage of the unique features of specific devices or new hardware. These features support working with multiple devices and enable developers to target a wide range of mobile devices. This section is directed toward developers who want to build support for existing ASP.NET mobile Web pages on new devices, and toward developers who want to write mobile controls that require adapters for device-specific rendering.

It is easier to add a new browser configuration file for a device than it is to write new device adapter code. You should consider writing new device adapter code only if you cannot describe the differences between your device and an existing device by adding a new browser file to either the browsers folder in the core configuration folder for the 2.0 version of the .NET Framework, or to an App_Browsers folder in your ASP.NET Web Site project. For details about browser configuration files, see Adding New Device Adapters and Device Support.

Note
Installing third-party adapters introduces the possibility that security might be compromised. Be sure that you trust the adapter manufacturer.

In This Section

• Adapter Mappings
  Provides coding techniques to writing a new device adapter for each supported device.

• Control and Adapter Interaction
  Provides a step-by-step, in-depth summary of the interaction between controls and their device adapters during the life cycle of a control.

• Types of Adapters
  Discusses the three types of adapters provided by ASP.NET for mobile applications: page, form, and control.

• Adapter Interaction with ASP.NET
  Provides information about how to create adapters that interact with other adapters, controls, and pages.

• Mobile Text Writer Rendering Best Practices
  Provides recommendations for writing customized device adapters.

• Adapter Sets Functionality
  Describes the sets of characteristics necessary to create adapters for cHTML, HTML, and WML.

• Pagination Support
  Describes automatic pagination supported by mobile controls.

• Device Template Support
  Provides recommendations for using device-specific templates supported by mobile controls.

• Implementing Templated Rendering
  Describes the sequence of operations needed to use templates during the rendering of mobile controls.

Related Sections

• Device-Specific Rendering
  Discusses explicit rendering for multiple devices.

• Device-Specific Composition
  Describes when to use general composition versus device-specific composition.

See Also

Concepts

ASP.NET Browser Registration Tool (Aspnet_regbrowsers.exe)

Other Resources

Extensibility Developer's Guide
Adding New Device Adapters and Device Support