ASP.NET Web Forms and jQuery Mobile Reconsidered
May 2,
2013
I’ve written before on this blog about the problems with combining Web Forms and jQuery Mobile. At bottom, it boils down to this: the Ajax navigation does not play well with ScriptManager. Beyond that, when working with jQuery Mobile you have multiple pages in the DOM at the same time, so you have to make […]
Allowing Users to Select Mobile or Desktop Views
,
2013
My jQuery Mobile/ASP.NET MVC site, cocktailsrus.com, began as a pure jQuery Mobile site. I then added a desktop view and automatically switched users to the appropriate view depending on their device. This works pretty well – especially with the 51Degrees NuGet to improve on the built-in device detection – but even so, there are occasions […]
New ASP.NET Training Course at Learning Tree
Dec 15,
2012
I was back in Learning Tree’s Reston offices last week, presenting the beta of my new ASP.NET course – Building ASP.NET Web Applications: Hands-On. (The beta is part of our course development process where we try out the course in front of students for the first time. Their feedback is an important part of refining […]
Combining jQuery Mobile with ASP.NET Web Forms
Oct 18,
2012
I’ve written quite a few articles on this blog about combining ASP.NET MVC and jQuery Mobile, but recently I had occasion to combine JQM with ASP.NET Web Forms. Not surprisingly, there turn out to be at least as many compatibility issues with Web Forms as there are with MVC – and since they’re different from […]
Managing jQuery Mobile and ASP.NET MVC Compatibility Issues
Jun 4,
2012
jQuery Mobile is a great technology for producing mobile-friendly applications that work on multiple devices. ASP.NET MVC is a great technology for creating elegant, scalable Web applications. The two were made for each other: so much so that the Visual Studio 11 beta includes jQuery Mobile along with ASP.NET MVC and even provides a specific […]