Non "mobile" controls on Mobile ASPX

Hi. I have Mobile site that I'm building. My problem is that all of my pages 
are built as Mobile ASPX pages, but occasionally, I need to use controls 
which are not mobile. Most specifically, the "FileUpload" control. Now, most 
phones don't support this feature, but some do and for them I need to place 
and use this control. How can I insert a FileUpload control on a Mobile ASPX?

Alex

Date:Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:00:56 -0700 Author:

RE: Non "mobile" controls on Mobile ASPX

Hi Alex,

Regarding  on the non-mobile controls(ASP.NET standard controls), they 
should be used in sepefic DeviceSpecifc template. So if your mobile 
application's target client support HTML, you can define a certain 
deviceSpecific/choice template for it.e.g.

the following "IsIE" template use those ASP.NET standard controls while 
"IsNotIE" use mobile controls:


>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<body>
    <mobile:Form id="Form1" runat="server">
      
           <mobile:DeviceSpecific ID="dshtml" Runat="server">
          <Choice Filter="IsIE" 
Xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/mobile/html32template">
              <HeaderTemplate>
            <asp:Label ID="Label2" runat="server" Text="Label"></asp:Label> 
           <hr />
            <asp:FileUpload ID="FileUpload1" runat="server" /> 
            <asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="Button" />
            <hr />
              </HeaderTemplate>
          </Choice>
        
       
          <Choice Filter="IsNotIE">
            <HeaderTemplate>
                <mobile:Label ID="Label1" 
Runat="server">Label</mobile:Label>
                <mobile:TextBox ID="TextBox1" Runat="server">
                </mobile:TextBox>
                <mobile:Command ID="Command1" 
Runat="server">Command</mobile:Command>
               </HeaderTemplate> 
          </Choice> 
      </mobile:DeviceSpecific>
  

    </mobile:Form>
</body>
</html>

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


BTW, I have also posted some information about configure and use 
deviceSpecific template in ASP.NET mobile page in your another thread below:

Subject: Non "mobile" controls on Mobile ASPX
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet

Please also feel free to have a look there.

Sincerely,

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Date:Fri, 17 Aug 2007 07:20:23 GMT Author:

RE: Non "mobile" controls on Mobile ASPX

Steven -

As always, thanks so much for your help. But I have to admit, on this I am a 
little lost. I've tried to understand the SeviceSpecific business from the 
documentation and it's very confusing...

In your sample here, you have a <choice filer="IsIE"...> but I don't really 
know what that means. On a phone, it will only be "IE" if it's a Microaoft 
phone. But there are others that support enough of the features I need. Is 
there a way that I can just place the controls that I need on the page, even 
without having different markup for different devices? I really don't 
understand the way this selection of <choice>'s works. Where are these things 
defined? Can't I just have one template that will be open for using standard 
controls?

Alex


"Steven Cheng[MSFT]" wrote:


> Hi Alex,
> 
> Regarding  on the non-mobile controls(ASP.NET standard controls), they 
> should be used in sepefic DeviceSpecifc template. So if your mobile 
> application's target client support HTML, you can define a certain 
> deviceSpecific/choice template for it.e.g.
> 
> the following "IsIE" template use those ASP.NET standard controls while 
> "IsNotIE" use mobile controls:
> 
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
> <body>
>     <mobile:Form id="Form1" runat="server">
>       
>            <mobile:DeviceSpecific ID="dshtml" Runat="server">
>           <Choice Filter="IsIE" 
> Xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/mobile/html32template">
>               <HeaderTemplate>
>             <asp:Label ID="Label2" runat="server" Text="Label"></asp:Label> 
>            <hr />
>             <asp:FileUpload ID="FileUpload1" runat="server" /> 
>             <asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="Button" />
>             <hr />
>               </HeaderTemplate>
>           </Choice>
>         
>        
>           <Choice Filter="IsNotIE">
>             <HeaderTemplate>
>                 <mobile:Label ID="Label1" 
> Runat="server">Label</mobile:Label>
>                 <mobile:TextBox ID="TextBox1" Runat="server">
>                 </mobile:TextBox>
>                 <mobile:Command ID="Command1" 
> Runat="server">Command</mobile:Command>
>                </HeaderTemplate> 
>           </Choice> 
>       </mobile:DeviceSpecific>
>   
> 
>     </mobile:Form>
> </body>
> </html>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> 
> BTW, I have also posted some information about configure and use 
> deviceSpecific template in ASP.NET mobile page in your another thread below:
> 
> Subject: Non "mobile" controls on Mobile ASPX
> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet
> 
> Please also feel free to have a look there.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Steven Cheng
> 
> Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead
> 
>  
> 
> ==================================================
> 
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> handled working with a dedicated Microsoft Support Engineer by contacting 
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Date:Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:58:03 -0700 Author:

RE: Non "mobile" controls on Mobile ASPX

Thanks for your reply Alex,

For the "DeviceSpecifc" template, I've mentioned your another thread 
"Mobile Repeater..." as I've provided some reference on how to configure 
and define mobile device specific filter there. Anyway, I'll repaste them 
here and add some further description here.

Actually, for "DeviceSpecific", it can be defined once in each ASP.NET 
mobile control(mobile:Form  or other control that support such a template). 
And in each "DeviceSpecific" template, you can add multiple "<Choice>" and 
"choice" is based on a filter, this is configurable in the web.config file. 
 e.g.

==========
<deviceFilters>
          
          <filter name="IsIE"  type="ClassLibrary1.MobileFilterClass, 
ClassLibrary1" method="IsIE" />
          <filter name="IsNotIE"  type="ClassLibrary1.MobileFilterClass, 
ClassLibrary1" method="IsNotIE" />
          

<!-- built-in ones-->
            <filter name="isJPhone" compare="Type" argument="J-Phone" />
            <filter name="isHTML32" compare="PreferredRenderingType" 
argument="html32" />
            <filter name="isWML11" compare="PreferredRenderingType" 
argument="wml11" />
            <filter name="isCHTML10" compare="PreferredRenderingType" 
argument="chtml10" />
            <filter name="isGoAmerica" compare="Browser" argument="Go.Web" 
/>
            <filter name="isMME" compare="Browser" argument="Microsoft 
Mobile Explorer" />
            <filter name="isMyPalm" compare="Browser" argument="MyPalm" />
            <filter name="isPocketIE" compare="Browser" argument="Pocket 
IE" />
            <filter name="isUP3x" compare="Type" argument="Phone.com 3.x 
Browser" />
............
=====================

In the "built-in ones" are added when you create a mobile web.config file. 
And the "IsIE" and "IsNotIE" ones are added by myself. I use a custom class 
to supply the filter's detection logic, the code of the class is quite 
simple(just for test):

=========
public class MobileFilterClass
    {
        public static bool IsIE(System.Web.Mobile.MobileCapabilities 
capabilities,
   String compareArgument)
        {
            return true;
        }

        public static bool IsNotIE(System.Web.Mobile.MobileCapabilities 
capabilities,
   String compareArgument)
        {
            return false;
        }
    }
===============

and I can then use it in my mobile page(make sure to add the reference of 
the custom class's assembly in the application):

=======mobile aspx page=======

 <mobile:Form id="Form1" runat="server">
      
           <mobile:DeviceSpecific ID="dshtml" Runat="server">
          <Choice Filter="IsIE" >
              <HeaderTemplate>
            <asp:Label ID="Label2" runat="server" Text="Label"></asp:Label> 
           <hr />
..............

================

as the document mentioned, you can use both class or mobile capability 
properties to define filter:

#<deviceFilters>  
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/k25f323z.aspx

#filter Element for deviceFilters (ASP.NET Settings Schema)  
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms228320.aspx

In addition, here are some other MSDN reference helpful to you:


#Using Device Filters  
https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d7k7a6z2.aspx

#<Choice> Element (.NET Framework Developer's Guide )  
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/3tfbhf6f.aspx

#Device-Specific Content
http://dotnetjunkies.com/MobileQuickStart/(klvbrkyhamv2i5yfzqwhhxnr)/Default
.aspx?url=doc/DeviceSpecific.aspx

Hope this helps a little further on this. If you have any more specific 
questions, welcome to post here.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead
 	

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