This blog gives a quick sense to
understand the approach of problem statement i.e., mobilizing .aspx web based
desktop application on BlackBerry10 and other major platforms significantly. To
achieve the result, please verify the system requirements and make sure all
setup should be done early before moving ahead.
For .aspx web based app: Visual
Studio IDE is needed on your development machine. For creating the fresh
project or existing project execution, Please follow following steps:
On Visual Studio IDE- > click on
File Menu-> New Project -> Pick the recent template as ‘Visual C#’ and
select ‘ASP.NET Web Application’ for executing the project. See below image for
ref (Fig1)
Fig1.
Running ASP.NET web app on Visual Studio IDE
Click on the ‘Release’ button. App
will run and display on default browser with picked port number, like this http://127.0.0.1:48667/Web.UI/EmpLogin.aspx
Fig2. Running Web Application on Desktop Browser with Port value
Write click on the Solution Explorer -> Publish Website
Fig3. Actual path
of the Application
Copy the path C:\PFC\Sample App\PrecompiledWeb\Web.UI
Active the IIS Sever on Desktop platform first. Then go to
Windows
-> Start - > ctrl + R -> inetmgr
IIS Manger window will open, then click on Sites - > Default Web Site - >
Right-Click and choose ‘Add Application’ option
Provide the application ‘Alias name’ and actual path i.e.,
same target location which received from Publish Web Site on Visual Studio IDE.
Right-Click
on the application Alias -> Manage Application -> Browse
The app will open on the default browser, without
port-number, i.e., http://127.0.0.1/PFC/
Fig4. Running Web Application on Desktop Browser without Port value
In next step, as we know BlackBerry
Enterprise Service (BES 10) environment is setup on the dev environment.Target platform device has to be
enabled with the BES services, such as, currently supports available for
BlackBerry 10, iOS and Android.
Open the Workspace (BlackBerry
10)/Secure Workspace browser (iOS and Android), type the URL with the IP address
and alias name, i.e., http://127.0.0.1/PFC/ (have been created above as and
application alias) .
App will start showing on the
device workspace browser:
Fig5. Running Desktop
Web Application on BlackBerry 10 Secure Browser
For launching the same output as an
application, there are following ways:
1. Hybrid
approach – create a native app and call the application URL on web associated API
in that.2. Web app – simply call the URL at respective web view API. That’s it.
After creation of the app, it has
to be pushed on Workspace (BlackBerry 10)/Secure workspace (iOS and Android).
If the app doesn’t have a target to
implement specific features such as (push notification, other api, so on) on
respective app on specific platform, then above solution would be the right
approach to pick or go forward.
To get to know more about BES 10,
please follow: BES
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