Many people feel that Microsoft is stepping back from mobile web development tooling. This feeling has got fuel from the stunning fact that Microsoft has taken off the designer support from its new Visual Studio 2008. The MSDN documentation for .Net 3.5/Visual Studio 2008 (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/b73×06dt.aspx ) asks to create mobile web project in Visual Studio 2005. Most of the pages on ASP.Net mobile development on MSDN are outdated and not updated for a year or many years. The official ASP.Net portal asp.net has a mobile web roadmap that ends in a desert after .Net 2 (http://www.asp.net/mobile/road-map/) and it seems not been updated for many years. The device support is silent for any progress after 2003 http://www.asp.net/mobile/tested-devices/). In his blog, Omar Khan, the Group Program Manager of Visual Web Developer, gave his custom templates to leverage Studio 2008 for mobile web development and people bombarded him with questions about Microsoft stepping back from mobile web tooling and he couldn’t answer them(http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2007/09/17/tip-trick-asp-net-mobile-development-with-visual-studio-2008.aspx).
This has created a threat among us, the people involved in technology selection about our selection of ASP.Net for mobile development. We were already concerned about narrow device support for Non-Windows based phones.
Can anyone from Microsoft may comment on this?
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On the other side Google published Android, SDK for mobile devices.