Windows Mobile 5.0 running asp page

[Guest]

Sorry if this is a repost.

We are trying to create an application in Visual Studio 2005 for a Windows
Mobile 5.0 device. What we would like to do is have a web page (this on is
..aspx in vbscript) run on the mobile device and not be served from a web
server.

for a little more detail:
These devices are not always connected, but the pages have just two simple
controls and are used to store data on the device locally in SQL Micro
edition. So we actually dont need a remote web server, just these pages
locally.

It works fine on the development machine, but that hs a local IIS server.
Is this possible, or is there some other approach we should be using?

thanks

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

I don't know about aspx, which I think is a no-go for Windows CE, but you
should be able to install the Windows CE/Windows Mobile Web server on the
device and serve ordinary pages, local pages, from that.

Paul T.

 

[Guest]

ASP.NET is not supported on CE/Windows Mobile. There is an ASP 3.0 server,
and ISAPI extensions are also an option.


--

Chris Tacke, Embedded MVP
OpenNETCF Consulting
Managed Code in an Embedded World
www.OpenNETCF.com

 

[Guest]

Thanks. Did you mean its a no-go for Windows Mobile 5.0?

I don't know about aspx, which I think is a no-go for Windows CE, but you
should be able to install the Windows CE/Windows Mobile Web server on the
device and serve ordinary pages, local pages, from that.

Paul T.

 

[Guest]

Thanks

You mean run ASP 3.0 server on Windows Mobile 5.0? Sorry, usually my parter
handles this side of the development... you have to explain things like I am
a newbie! ISAPI can run an active server page?

ASP.NET is not supported on CE/Windows Mobile. There is an ASP 3.0 server,
and ISAPI extensions are also an option.


--

Chris Tacke, Embedded MVP
OpenNETCF Consulting
Managed Code in an Embedded World
www.OpenNETCF.com

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

ASP is supported, with some limitations, which I'm not intimately familiar
with (check the CE5 help for ASP -- there's a page called "ASP Functionality
for Windows CE 5.0"). The Web server will, of course, serve ordinary HTML
pages, too. It may be that you can get enough functionality to make it work
for you, but it's doubtful that it will be a straightforward port from the
desktop; most things aren't.

Paul T.

Thanks. Did you mean its a no-go for Windows Mobile 5.0?

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

Yes, there's a Web server that will run on Windows CE/Windows Mobile and it
has ASP 3.0 support. ISAPI is a programming API for the Web server, so you
can add functionality to the server by adding DLLs built to use the ISAPI
(not in .NET, however; native code only). When the page requested by the
Web client points to the ISAPI extension, that extension is loaded by the
server and passed information about what the request was. It can then do
whatever it wants, including asking SQL Mobile for data, whatever. ISAPI
seems more general to me, but ASP might be closer to what you're used to.

Paul T.

Thanks

You mean run ASP 3.0 server on Windows Mobile 5.0? Sorry, usually my
parter
handles this side of the development... you have to explain things like I
am
a newbie! ISAPI can run an active server page?

 

[Guest]

Why don't you just develop a WinForms application. I see little point in
hosting web pages on a device as you are losing all benefits of web
technology on mobile devices other than using the web server to host server
side code.
--
Simon Hart
http://simonrhart.blogspot.com

Thanks

You mean run ASP 3.0 server on Windows Mobile 5.0? Sorry, usually my parter
handles this side of the development... you have to explain things like I am
a newbie! ISAPI can run an active server page?