Lost in alphabet soup

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I have vs05 on my desktop with IIS.
I have active snyc 4.0
I have a Dell Axim 50
I want to create a website for the PDA.
What project type do I select when I fire up Studio to create this website.

I'm a newbie to the Mobile dev community but have done lots of web and
desktop development and I have to say that mobile has the most and most
confusing acronyms.
A little push in the right direction would be very appreciated. Thanks
 
"For the PDA" meaning what? Designed to be viewed by the PDA, or designed
to run on a web server residing on the PDA?

If the former, then just a standard wen project. You jjust have to have
logic to determine what the client is. For the device there are no ASP.NET
servers that I'm aware of, so you'll have to use either the subset of ASP
3.0 that's available or HTML.


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Designed to be viewed by the PDA, yes.

When you say 'standard wen project' does that mean I create it just like I
would any other website (which oddly enough is not under the new project menu
anymore). Then when the first page loads I do some kind of browser sniffing
to determine what the user is using to view it?

I think I'm following you now. Not sure what I was thinking about. The
website doesn't need to be created differently just because a pda could be
using it. That is what you are saying right?
 
You create a "New Web Site". Then you remove default.aspx from it and start
adding New Mobile Web Forms. When you are designing mobile web form, you get
a choice of mobile web controls. As long as you are using those, you end up
with a web site that creates adaptive pages, that can be viewed on a wide
range of mobile device and are lightweight and mobile-friendly (but less
rich than the regular web pages). You might also want to add a Mobile Web
Configuration File, which describes target device capabilities
 
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