Question

I want to produce a mobile site for a client, based on their existing ASP.NET MVC 3 Azure implementation. I’m happy that I can use the existing controllers and models, but I want a new set of views, JS, style sheets, and static content, that display less of the data. I’m pretty certain I can do this with just view changes.

Is there any way in which I can achieve some sort of view switch to pickup a different set for the mobile URL m.clientname.com – or even switch them at build time?

Can I product a view only project? And link in the DLL’s from the main project ?

I guess the last resort is starting a new project based on the same files, but with new views?

Any thoughts on if anyone has done this would be appreciated.

Answer 1

This was covered by Scott Hanselman a while ago:

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ABetterASPNETMVCMobileDeviceCapabilitiesViewEngine.aspx