Aaron Lerch » mobile http://www.aaronlerch.com/blog Sun, 04 Dec 2011 03:27:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Writing web apps for the iPhone http://www.aaronlerch.com/blog/2007/10/27/writing-web-apps-for-the-iphone/ http://www.aaronlerch.com/blog/2007/10/27/writing-web-apps-for-the-iphone/#comments Sat, 27 Oct 2007 04:01:21 +0000 aaron http://www.aaronlerch.com/blog/2007/10/27/writing-web-apps-for-the-iphone/ I’ve been working on a web app for the iPhone the last few days. It’s been a little while since I’ve done ASP.NET (I miss it!) so it’s fun to jump back in. I came across iUI – a very well done, lightweight and visually beautiful “mini-framework” for creating web sites that behave just like native iPhone applications. Digg.com used an early version of iUI to create their iPhone interface.

Unfortunately, to use the HTML structure and navigation paradigm that iUI supports out of the box, I feel more like I’m coding in classic ASP, not ASP.NET. iUI (as it currently stands) is all about replacing the current page fragment with one returned from the server via an Ajax call. Sort of like a bunch of UpdatePanel’s that keep replacing each other–except that the last instance isn’t removed, just hidden. So if you navigate to a “sub page” (or sub menu) and perform an action that causes a state change such that an already-loaded higher level menu should be updated, it won’t be. It’s cached.

Alas, these are the issues I’m working around. I’m working on some possible tweaks to iUI to help support some of this functionality. I’ll probably post something when my app is done with a quick tutorial on how to use the toolkit from ASP.NET–assuming I figure it out. :)

Has anybody out there used iUI and have advice for me? I’m interested! I’ll pay big bucks… I’ll take you out for a fancy fast-food meal. How can you pass that up??

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MSDN has a nice synopsis of What’s New for Windows Mobile 5.0

Check it out.

]]> http://www.aaronlerch.com/blog/2005/05/12/windows-mobile-50/feed/ 0 .NET CF fluid FAQ http://www.aaronlerch.com/blog/2005/05/09/net-cf-fluid-faq/ http://www.aaronlerch.com/blog/2005/05/09/net-cf-fluid-faq/#comments Mon, 09 May 2005 13:17:00 +0000 aaron http://www.aaronlerch.com/blog/2005/05/09/net-cf-fluid-faq/ The .NET CF team at MS has a FAQ to answer many questions. Good resource!

http://blogs.msdn.com/…/414820.aspx

]]> http://www.aaronlerch.com/blog/2005/05/09/net-cf-fluid-faq/feed/ 0 I’ve got one word for you. http://www.aaronlerch.com/blog/2005/03/31/ive-got-one-word-for-you/ http://www.aaronlerch.com/blog/2005/03/31/ive-got-one-word-for-you/#comments Thu, 31 Mar 2005 23:47:00 +0000 aaron http://www.aaronlerch.com/blog/2005/03/31/ive-got-one-word-for-you/ ORB.

It’s now free! (I learned this via Mike Hall)

I installed this last night, and have already spent the entire day today streaming my music library to my work PC to enjoy some tunes while I work. It’s pretty slick! I streamed videos, checked out some pictures, and oh yeah, did some work. :)

Check it out!

www.orb.com

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]]> http://www.aaronlerch.com/blog/2005/02/15/netcf-blog/feed/ 0 .NET Compact Framework: Updating the UI from a background thread http://www.aaronlerch.com/blog/2004/12/17/net-compact-framework-updating-the-ui-from-a-background-thread/ http://www.aaronlerch.com/blog/2004/12/17/net-compact-framework-updating-the-ui-from-a-background-thread/#comments Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:08:00 +0000 aaron http://www.aaronlerch.com/blog/2004/12/17/net-compact-framework-updating-the-ui-from-a-background-thread/ Interesting and useful article from Jim Wilson on the right way to update your UI from process-intensive operations using the .NET Compact Framework.

Check it out on MSDN.

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