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ASP.NET vs. SharePoint: Mobile Adapter Development

Applies to: SharePoint Foundation 2010

This topic describes the differences between development of mobile control adapters in Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 and mobile Web Part adapters in Microsoft SharePoint Foundation.

Programming the SharePoint Foundation Mobile Adaption Framework

The SharePoint Foundation framework for mobile adapters is actually simpler to develop against than the Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 mobile adaption system. In SharePoint Foundation, as with the Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 system, you can create a mobile adapter control for every Web Part that you want to be accessible to mobile devices. You map that adapter to the Web Part whose rendering it adapts in the compat.browser file.

However, there are some ways in which developing with the SharePoint Foundation framework differs from mobile adapter development with Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5. For the most part these differences are needed in order to conform to the security model of SharePoint Foundation: