Microsoft .NET Mobile Web

There's a new trend in wireless telecommunications, Internet: Internet connectivity via handheld devices. More people are buying wireless handheld devices such as cellular phones, pagers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and they demand access to online resources at any time from any location. Over the past few years a tremendous number of wireless devices different in their characteristics appeared on market. Developments of web application for these devices become challenging experience due to the following reasons [I]: Different markup languages are necessary, including HTML for PDAs, wireless markup language (WML) for wireless application protocol (WAP) cell phones, and compact HTML (cHTML) for Japanese i-mode phones. Different display capabilities - screen size (rows and columns) and color capability. For example, a device with higher resolution can show more information and have better viewing quality. Some devices can display images and multiple colors, some can make phone calls, and others can receive notification messages. Devices have different network connectivity, ranging from 9.6-KB cellular connections to 11 MB Wireless LANs. The Mobile Internet Toolkit is the solution that Microsoft has brought forward to help in mobile web development and overcome the difficulties with it.