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ASP.NET MVC 4 Mobile App Development

By : Andy Meadows
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ASP.NET MVC 4 Mobile App Development

By: Andy Meadows

Overview of this book

The ASP.NET MVC 4 framework is used to build scalable web applications with the help of design patterns and .NET Framework. The Model-View-Controller (MVC) is a design principle which separates the components of a web application. This separation helps you to modify, develop, and test different components of a web application. ASP.NET MVC 4 Mobile App Development helps you to develop next generation applications, while guiding you to deal with the constraints the mobile web places on application development. By the end of the book, you will be well versed with all the aspects of mobile app development. ASP.NET MVC 4 Mobile App Development introduces you to developing mobile web apps using the ASP.NET MVC 4 framework. Walking you through the process of creating a homebrew recipe sharing application, this book teaches you the fundamentals and concepts relevant to developing Internet-ready mobile-enabled web apps. Through the sample application, you will learn how to secure your apps against XSS and CSRF attacks, open up your application to users using third party logins such as Google or Facebook, and how to use Razor, HTML 5, and CSS 3 to create custom views and content targeting mobile devices. Using these custom views, you will then learn how to create web apps with a native mobile device feel using jQuery mobile. By the end of the book, you will be presented with a set of challenges to prove to yourself that you now have the skills to extend your existing web applications to the mobile web or create new mobile web apps.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
ASP.NET MVC 4 Mobile App Development
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
7
Separating Functionality Using Routes and Areas
Index

Display modes


Display modes are new to ASP.NET MVC 4. They allow us to target specific devices based on some matching criteria contained in an HttpContext, typically a user-agent string. Upon a match, the display mode identifies the suffix appended to any view specific to the device. It is actually this technology underlying the .Mobile suffix we just learned about.

Display modes are represented by an implementation of the IDisplayMode interface defined in System.Web.WebPages. At application startup, implementations of IDisplayMode can be registered with the current DisplayModeProvider.

We will be creating and registering an instance of IDisplayMode for the Asus Nexus 7. Our new display mode will use a suffix of nexus7 for any Asus Nexus 7 specific views. This means that the layout file _Layout.nexus7.cshtml will be used for any request to our site made by an Asus Nexus 7.

Supporting Asus Nexus 7

We must first identify a request from an Asus Nexus 7 with the device's browser's user-agent string...