More tips for ASP.NET MVC jQuery Mobile sites
I’ve had a very enjoyable week finalizing the alpha of my new ASP.NET MVC/jQuery Mobile site and putting it online at cocktails-r-us. I’m now testing and refining it (as well as dutifully drinking lots...
View ArticleProgressive Enhancement with ASP.NET MVC and jQuery Mobile
In an earlier post, I blogged about the NuGet that allows ASP.NET MVC3 to take the same approach as MVC4 to delivering different views for mobiles and standard browsers. I’ve now fully implemented this...
View ArticleImproved Device Detection with ASP.NET
This is a follow up to my last post where I did a quick-and-dirty hack to get around the limitations of ASP.NET’s built-in isMobileDevice property. At the end of that post, I said I was going to wait...
View ArticleImproving Performance with Output Caching
I’ve been spending most of my spare time over the past few weeks refactoring the code for my site, cocktailsrus.com, in the Visual Studio 11 beta–partly to play with the new stuff, but mostly just to...
View ArticleValidation Issues with jQuery Mobile and ASP.NET MVC
I’ve written before about the peculiarities of ASP.NET MVC validation. It’s a great technology 90% of the time, but can cause issues if you do something a little out of the ordinary. I came across...
View ArticleManaging jQuery Mobile and ASP.NET MVC Compatibility Issues
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...
View ArticleCombining jQuery Mobile with ASP.NET Web Forms
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...
View ArticleNew ASP.NET Training Course at Learning Tree
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...
View ArticleAllowing Users to Select Mobile or Desktop Views
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....
View ArticleASP.NET Web Forms and jQuery Mobile Reconsidered
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,...
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