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Selection of Ads using AdRotator Control at Run Time
By Rosi Reddy
You can advertise the Ads on
rotating basis in your website. Microsoft is providing the AdRotator Control to pick
the Ad in random basis using XML file. Same controls can use even for the mobile
phones. See the Xml file below. It contains the following attributes.
ImageUrl
This is the URL of the image. You can give the image link of website like first
of Ad of below in xml or you can give your own images stored in your folder.
NavigateUrl This is the URL
you want to navigate when you click on the Ad in AdRotator control.
AlternateText This is the text display,
when you keep mouse on the Image.
Keyword This is the
keyword to filter the adds.
Impressions This is the
number of times the ad rotator will display the ad through it's random rotation.
The total of all impressions values in the XML file may not exceed 2,048,000,000
- 1
All of these attributes are optional.
<?xml
version="1.0"
encoding="utf-8"
?>
<Advertiements>
<Ad>
<ImageUrl>http://www.csharphelp.com/images/dnc-box2.gif</ImageUrl>
<NavgateUrl>http://www.dotnetcharting.com/home.aspx</NavgateUrl>
<AlternateText>I
can explain How to create Charts in .Net</AlternateText>
<Keywod>Chart,
Graph</Keywod>
<Impressions>50</Impressions>
</Ad>
<Ad>
<ImageUrl>Images/Amazon.gif</ImageUrl>
<NavgateUrl>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/home/home.html/102-8864787-3504966</NavgateUrl>
<AlternateText>Buy
whatever you want in amazon.com</AlternateText>
<Keywod>books,
articles</Keywod>
<Impressions>50</Impressions>
</Ad>
<Ad>
<ImageUrl>Images/Graphics.</ImageUrl>
<NavgateUrl>http://www.nwoods.com/GO/dotnet.htm</NavgateUrl>
<AlternateText>Build
interactive graphics with Go.Net</AlternateText>
<Keywod>Graphic</Keywod>
<Impressions>50</Impressions>
</Ad>
</Advertiements>
The Creation of Ads using AdRotation control is
pretty easy.
1. Open Asp.Net Web Application
2. Drag the AdRotator control from the WebForms
in Tool box and drop in your aspx page.
3. Save the above xml into xml file
4. Go to the properties of AdRotator control and
give the xml path for Advertisement File property
5. Add the images to the folder as given in Xml.
6. Now you build and run the program to know the behavior
of AdRotator control.
The image of the ad will be different in size. So
you need to take control of size of the AdRotator control. The OnAdCreated event
happens after the ad to be rendered. So you knows what is the ImageUrl in the
OnAdCreated event. You can make the changes for height and width of the
AdRotator control depending upon the size of the image. You see the different
size image Ads by using the AdRotator control and program for OnAdCreated event
below.
private
void AdRotator1_AdCreated(object
sender, System.Web.UI.WebControls.AdCreatedEventArgs e)
{
if(e.ImageUrl
== "Images/Amazon.gif")
{
AdRotator1.Height = 100;
AdRotator1.Width = 150;
}
else if(e.ImageUrl
== "http://www.csharphelp.com/images/dnc-box2.gif")
{
AdRotator1.Height = 150;
AdRotator1.Width = 150;
}
else
{
AdRotator1.Height = 100;
AdRotator1.Width = 500;
}
}
Conclusion
Now you can make the changes to the xml file and load images to the
required folder according to your advertisements. Hope you feel it's very easy
to create Ads using AdRotator control after reading this article. Give any suggestions
you have to me at rosireddyr@yahoo.com.
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