Adrotator control in ASP.NET
Adrotator control:
Adrotator control can be used to display different advertisements to different clients visiting the same webpage
Properties:
1)Advertisementfile: specifying xml file name which contains advertisements information
2)height: specify advertisements image height
3)width: specify advertisement image width
4)target: specify window to display advertisement information webpage top[default]. It will display add information. Page in the same browser window by overlopping ad image
5)blank: it will display ad information page with in new browser window
Structure of advertisement information file[xml file]
->Microsoft providing set of xml tags for storing advertisements information
Syntax:
<Advertisements>
<Ad>
</image url>…….</imageurl>
<navigate url>….</navigateurl>
<Alternate text>…</Alternate text>
<impressions>….</impressions>
</Ad>
………
</Advertisements>
->Ad tag will represent one advertisement information
->image url tag requires advertisements image filename (or) url
->navigate url tag requires webpage name contains ad product information
->alternatetext tag requires tooltip top ad image. If ad image is not displayed then this text will be displayed
->impression tag requires priority of an advertisement
EX: dell ad……5[impressions]
Sony ad…..3[impressions]
Lg ad……2[impressions]
->the ad with more impressions will be given to more number of clients
->xml tags are case sensitive
Creating website to work with adrotator
Goto visual studio
Start->run->devenv
It will display main window of visual studio
File menu->new->website->visual c#->select asp.net empty website
Weblocation->e:\aspnet\adrotatorsite[drive:\dir\websitename]
Visual studio create a folder with website name, in this folder website related files will be placed
->goto solution explorer
Right click on website path and select add existing item [select product image files]
->speakers.gif,pocketpc.gif, pendant.gif
Creat html page into website to store speakers product information
Right click on website path and select add new item
Select html page
Give name as speakers.html
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>place speakers information</h1>
</body>
</html>
Creat html page into website to store pocketpc product information
Right click on website path and select add new item
Select html page
Give name as pocketpc.html
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1--transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<h1> place pocket pc information</h1>
</body>
</html>
Creat html page into website to store pendant product information
Right click on website path and select add new item
Select html page
Give name as pendant.html
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<h1> place pendant information</h1>
</body>
</html>
Creat xml file into website to store advertisements information
Right click on website path and select add new item
Select xml file
Give name as adinto.xml
<?xmlversion="1.0"encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Advertisements>
<Ad>
<ImageUrl>speakers.gif</ImageUrl>
<NavigateUrl>speakers.html</NavigateUrl>
<AlternateText>sony speaker AD</AlternateText>
<Impressions>5</Impressions>
</Ad>
<Ad>
<ImageUrl>pocketpc.gif</ImageUrl>
<NavigateUrl>pocketpc.html</NavigateUrl>
<AlternateText>nokia pocket pc AD</AlternateText>
<Impressions>3</Impressions>
</Ad>
<Ad>
<ImageUrl>pendant.gif</ImageUrl>
<NavigateUrl>pendant.html</NavigateUrl>
<AlternateText>tans pendant AD</AlternateText>
<Impressions>2</Impressions>
</Ad>
</Advertisements>
Add webform
Goto view menu and select solution explorer
Right click on website path and select add new item
Select webform
Give name as home.aspx
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="home.aspx.cs" Inherits="home" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
goto design part
Place adrotator control
properties of adrotator1 properties
Advertisementfile……
……[click]
Select adinfo.xml
Height-150
Width-150
Target-…blank
Goto control F5
Product image display
[click]….->product information webpage will be displayed in new browser window
Rotating advertisements to each clients:
->This requires refreshing webpage at regular interval without user interaction this can be done using metatag
->goto source view of home.aspx
<head>
<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=5;
Control F5
Note: In this above case meta tag is intracting browser to refresh webpage at regular interval of 5 secs..
