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Asked: 2026-05-20T14:38:19+00:00

Reaching out to the community here for a best practice/best implementation question. I am

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Reaching out to the community here for a best practice/best implementation question.

I am using MVC3 in a major project, the MVC3 site will handle both our full site as well as our mobile site in a single solution. I have created a custom view engine to handle mapping mobile requests to the appropriate mobile views.

A requirement that popped up recently is to have a “Full Site” link on the mobile portion of the site to allow a mobile user to view the full site (actually to be able to switch back and forth).

Anyone have any insight on a possible quick solution or done something similiar?

I have a separate layout file (master page) for my mobile views that the “Full Site” link appears on.

Thanks in advance for any possible answers.

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  1. Editorial Team

    There are a few different ways you could go. A couple ideas:

    1. Store a cookie when the user clicks “View Classic” or “View Mobile” that your custom view engine can check before directing to the appropriate view.
    2. Take a look at the 51Degrees.mobi .NET library that handles mobile detection and redirection. There is a feature that can be used to track a user’s preference (see firstRequestOnly config option). Steve Sanderson has a good blog overview on implementing this library in MVC3: http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2010/12/17/using-51degreesmobi-foundation-for-accurate-mobile-browser-detection-on-aspnet-mvc-3/
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