Mobile Device Profiling Tool

The Microsoft ASP.NET Mobile Controls Device Profiling Tool allows you to determine the capabilities of a mobile device so you can extend ASP.NET mobile controls to support it and then stores the profile information in a list accessible to you.

Overview

The device profiling tool contains a self-explanatory wizard that walks through the steps of running profiling scripts on a mobile device and then recording the results in the wizard. Once you have profiled a device, you can download a device configuration file that can easily be inserted into the Machine.config or Web.config file. For a detailed description of how to use this tool, see the Help section.

Features

Using the CSS Properties window, you can do the following:

  • The profiling tool allows you to captures capabilities of a mobile device and desktop browser. By default it supports the following:
    • HTML device
    • WML device
    • XHTML device
    • Desktop HTML browser
  • The tool generates capability configuration files for ASP.NET 1.1 and ASP.NET 2.0 Mobile Web Applications to support additional devices.
  • The profiling tool can be customized to add new capabilities for profiling.

PLEASE NOTE:

  • ASP.NET Mobile Controls currently supports 200 mobile devices. View complete list of Tested Devices and Emulators
  • ASP.NET Device Profiling Tool is an unsupported tool but you may obtain help from the community and members of the product team in the Mobile and Handheld Devices forum
  • Profiling a device using this tool does not guarantee that the device will be supported by ASP.NET mobile controls. In some cases, for example, you may need to make changes to the adapter code to provide the best possible rendering for the device. Microsoft does not provide technical or customer support for compatibility issues with specific devices.

About the Author

Frank Tse Frank Tse is a Software Design Engineer at Microsoft working in the UI Frameworks team. He has been working on mobile web development since the beginning of Mobile Internet Toolkit 1.0. He is originally from Hong Kong and graduated from the University of Waterloo in Canada before joining Microsoft. In his spare time, he enjoys outdoor activities in the beautiful days of Seattle.

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