Creating a Mobile Web Part

SharePoint can render content on pages in two ways, normal and mobile view. There may be cases when a custom Web part needs to render differently when viewed in a mobile browser.

Overview

SharePoint can render content on pages in two ways, normal and mobile view. There may be cases when a custom Web part needs to render differently when viewed in a mobile browser. In the previous lab you saw how the compat.browser file can automatically change the render mode for Windows Phone 7 to redirect the user to the SharePoint Mobile View. In this lab you will create a SharePoint Web Part that changes the rendered content when viewed in a mobile browser. When the feature for the Web Part is activated your code will update the compat.browser file to create a mapping for the Mobile Adapter to change the rendering of the Web Part.

Objectives

In this hands-on lab, you will learn how to:

• Add a mobile adapter to an existing Web part
• Create a Feature Receiver that updates the compat.browser file to register the mobile control adapter
• Test the two views of a mobile web part

Prerequisites

The following is required to complete this hands-on lab:

• Windows 7 x64 installed with all Windows Updates installed, in one of the following scenarios.
  • Installed on a physical machine
  • Installed on a bootable VHD
• SharePoint 2010 installed on the Windows 7 x64 developer machine configured with a site collection that uses Forms Based Authentication (FBA).

• KB981002- WCF: Hotfix rollup in .NET 3.5 SP1 for Win 7 and Win 2k8 R2
  • http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB981002