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Following the showcase of MVC4 at the Build conference this guide will show you how to setup an MVC4 web application to use different Views based on the capabilities of the device accessing the site. This allows you to give all users a perfect experience on smart phones, feature phones, tablets and desktop web sites.

Need effective device detection but aren't using .NET? Then worry not, this guide will show you how to go about making your own detection cloud service and then how to access it with PHP.

In the last few months I've had several questions from 51Degrees.mobi Framework users asking how to implement google adverts on their web sites. Google have a very simple piece of javascript that can be used with high end phones. However this won't work on all phones, and as those familiar with 51Degrees.mobi will know we don't like to exclude people because they don't have the high end phones. The ASP provided for all phones won't work in ASP.NET and requires some tweaking to get working. This blog explains how to use Google AdSense and an ASP.NET user control to get Google Ads on a web page in minutes.

The blog is a brief guide on how to use 51Degrees.mobi Foundation with the Windows Azure Cloud Service. There have been changes to accommodate the cloud and this will show you what needs doing to detect mobile browsers on your bit of cloud.

This blog is a step by step guide on how to to configure Sharepoint 2010 so that it can use 51Degrees.mobi Framework components.

51Degrees.mobi has a proven record of fast, reliable detection on ASP.NET website but it has always been restricted to environments within IIS. The 1.2 release has now changed this and detection can now be used offline outside of IIS from any .NET code.

Forward thinking web sites will have at least 2 different versions of their content. 1 for mobile browsers, and the other for the big screen desktop and laptop devices. 51Degrees.mobi does an excellent job of detecting the device type and redirecting the device to the correct content. To provide users with choice and enable them to switch between the different versions.

iPad's don't support ASP.NET ListBoxes. There are small differences in the JavaScript event model between Safari, iOS3 on iPad and iOS4 on iPad. These differences are precisely the sort of problems 51Degrees.mobi Framework solves.

A big thank you to Thomas Derenthal for sending me these InfoWorld articles about mobile web development. I think other readers and customers will find them interesting.

This is a brief guide to creating mobile menus using ASP.NET Site Maps and 51Degrees.mobi