Acheive - Device Specific Output in MMIT

Introduction

Using Microsoft Mobile Internet Toolkit, we can customize the mobile applications to suit the display settings for the different mobile devices. One of the techniques that I like to share is pagination.

Pagination

How you define pagination?

Pagination is a process of separating the contents of a Mobile web form page into smaller units to target various devices.

Here are some of the properties of the form control that is used to paginate the output of the mobile web forms page.

Types of Pagination

Let us now discuss the types of Pagination available.

§          Internal Pagination

§          Custom Pagination

Internal Pagination

Some controls like List, ObjectList, and TextView controls supports automatic pagination of content. All these controls are derived from PagedControl class that provides properties, methods, and events used by the controls for pagination.

Custom  Pagination

Controls that use the Internal pagination also support the Custom Pagination that enables the control to display the content in

smaller chunks.

Here are some of the properties and events used by the Mobile controls that support custom pagination.

Conclusion

Other techniques that is used to Achieve Device –Specific Output in mobile web forms are Style sheets and Template Sets. (Refer MMIT Documentation for More Details)

Happy Programming!!!