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[Q] How to fake the browser to make it believe it's windows platform

Hi all,
I would like enter my company web portal trough Android devices like Nexus One or Nook Color... this portal is designed on IE but I believe it could run also on other browser... well I tried to set user agent to IE6 in the stock Android browser (running CM7) but the web portal still says me that a Windows plattform is required...
is there a way to fake the site and make it believe it's a Windows platform?
Thanks!

[Q] Programming language for Windows mobile devices

We are a small company looking to do some inhouse programming using tablets. Initially we were going to move forward on an Android Honeycomb platform because we have only Java developers here. But it looks like we can't get rugged tablets for that platform. There seem to be a lot more rugged tablets that are Windows based.
Initially I thought that we would have to use C# /.Net to code for native applications for the Windows tablets (and Windows specific API). But a colleague of mine thought we could use Java to build native applications on the Windows tablets also. Is this true? Can I use Java to build applications that can be deployed both to the Windows tablets and the Honeycombs? Our applications will also use GPS location based services. Any feedback/pointers would be sincerely appreciated. Thanks.

What devices are you talking about? Phones (running Windows Mobile 6 or Windows Phone 7) or tablets (like the iPad, currently running Windows 7 and in the future Windows 8)?

Most of Windows-based tablets are based in just normal Windows computers on x86 processor. Only very few are Windows CE-based.
On Windows XP/7 tablet PCs you can write in Java without any problem. I am not sure about GPS usage, but it can be read using JNI or just serial port. You can have some common classes/class libraries for Windows and Android, but the device logic and UI needs to be specific (and the JVM is different - Sun JVM vs. Dalvik).
On Windows 8 with "Metro", however, there is no sign yet you can develop WinRT apps using Java.

I am talking about Windows 7 tablets (and Windows 8 in future)

If you want create an app you need C# and silverlight

stre67 said:
I am talking about Windows 7 tablets (and Windows 8 in future)
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Well for Windows 7 you can develop using more or less whatever you prefer since there are no differences between the OS on the desktop and a tablet.
So yes, you can use Java for Windows 7.
There is some API for Location services in Windows 7 however I don't know the details about this.
I also don't know much about Android, but if you can develop for Android in Java you can at least share some code between the Windows 7 and Android version of your software.
Windows 8 will introduce a new kind of app (metro-style app) and those apps can only be written in HTML5 and Javascript or C#/VB.Net/C++/C and XAML.
However, users will still be able to use your Java Apps on Windows 8.

so it looks like Windows 7 is like a windows 7 PC. I can't find any specific books on amazon, so I do apologize if my questions are stupid.
1) Can I develop a Java application similar to that of a desktop and deploy the EAR/WAR file to the windows 7 tablet? if so, does the tablet have an inbuilt web server type application (websphere, tomcat) to serve pages? if not, will the app be loaded on a remote server and be accessed via a browser? In this case the tablet will need an internet connection all the time, correct?
Thanks again.

A Windows 7 Tablet is basically just running the desktop version of Windows 7 so you can do anything with the tablet that you could do with a Windows 7 desktop machine.
Note that Windows Phone 7 is an entirely different operating system that's barely connected.

Can I use asp.net in windows 7

Kindly tell me Can I use asp.net in windows 7. Does windows 7 supports asp.net functions

Nope. You have to use VB or C#.

i don't get your question.
asp.net is a server-side script technology; to use it you have to:
- write a page (ok.. not only onee...)
- compile it
- run it on a webserver
windows 7 has a webserver functionality (only pro and ultimate versions) and it supports asp.net.

WP7 Supports Silverlight only (In Nodo - SL3, in mango - SL4).

WIndows Phone 7 Browser as IOS\Android\Desktop

All -
I am trying to write a Web Browser application for Windows Phone 7 and I am able to create a general browser application (not that hard) but the specific site that I am writing the application for does not technically "Support" Windows Phone 7. What I want to do is to have the Windows Phone 7 browser somehow make the site think that it is an Android, IOS, or Desktop machine so the site can be viewed on windows phone. Currently I am just using the general Navigate argument to display the site in a browser control but have not seen any properties to change for the browser to control to tell it what to show the page as, any help would be greatly appreciated. I am doing all of my dev work in VS 2010.
Thank you,
John

You need to set the User-Agent header to a user-agent string used by one of the other browsers. There are a few apps that already do this., incidentally.

jbailey1882 said:
All -
I am trying to write a Web Browser application for Windows Phone 7 and I am able to create a general browser application (not that hard) but the specific site that I am writing the application for does not technically "Support" Windows Phone 7. What I want to do is to have the Windows Phone 7 browser somehow make the site think that it is an Android, IOS, or Desktop machine so the site can be viewed on windows phone. Currently I am just using the general Navigate argument to display the site in a browser control but have not seen any properties to change for the browser to control to tell it what to show the page as, any help would be greatly appreciated. I am doing all of my dev work in VS 2010.
Thank you,
John
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The Navigate() method accepts a parameter for user agent string. But will only work for initial page requests, not for clicked links from within the webbrowser content.

[Q] Is possible to build apps with pure DirectX on wp7?

Hello. I have a question about windows phone 7 development
I saw some topics about using native code on WP7 and one about using native DLL on a windows phone 7 for full unlocked devices. until now ok. But I though about using DirectDraw but I dont know if it is possible in a silverlight app with a Imported DLL
So my question is, Is possible create a DirectX application for windows phone 7 for fully unlocked devices?
I wanted to create a app with a control and this control may have the directx content if it isn't possible, is possible to make a native EXE?
Thanks for reading.