AdRotator Class

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Displays an advertisement banner on a Web page.

Inheritance Hierarchy
System.Object System.Web.UI.Control System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebControl System.Web.UI.WebControls.BaseDataBoundControl System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataBoundControl System.Web.UI.WebControls.AdRotator Namespace: System.Web.UI.WebControls Assembly: System.Web (in System.Web.dll)

Syntax
C# C++ F# VB public class AdRotator : DataBoundControl ASP.NET <asp:AdRotator /> The AdRotator type exposes the following members.

Constructors
Name
AdRotator
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Description
Initializes a new instance of the AdRotator class.

Properties
Name
AccessKey

Description

Gets or sets the access key that allows you to quickly navigat server control.(Inherited from WebControl.)

Adapter AdvertisementFile

Gets the browser-specific adapter for the control. (Inherited f

Gets or sets the path to an XML file that contains advertisem information. Gets or sets a custom data field to use in place of the AlternateText attribute for an advertisement.

AlternateTextField

AppRelativeTemplateSourceDirectory Gets or sets the application-relative virtual directory of the Page or UserControl object that contains this control. (Inh from Control.) Attributes

Gets the collection of arbitrary attributes (for rendering only) correspond to properties on the control. (Inherited from Web Gets or sets the background color of the Web server control. from WebControl.)

BackColor

BindingContainer

Infrastructure. Gets the control that contains this control's da binding. (Inherited fromControl.) Gets or sets the border color of the Web control. (Inherited from WebControl.)

BorderColor

BorderStyle

Gets or sets the border style of the Web server control. (Inhe from WebControl.)

BorderWidth

Gets or sets the border width of the Web server control. (Inhe from WebControl.) Gets a value that indicates whether the server control's child been created.(Inherited from Control.) Gets the control ID for HTML markup that is generated by ASP.NET. (Inherited from Control.)

ChildControlsCreated

ClientID

ClientIDMode

Gets or sets the algorithm that is used to generate the value o the ClientID property.(Inherited from Control.)

ClientIDSeparator

Gets a character value representing the separator character us the ClientID property.(Inherited from Control.)

Context

Gets the HttpContext object associated with the server contro current Web request.(Inherited from Control.)

Controls

Gets a ControlCollection object that represents the child cont specified server control in the UI hierarchy. (Inherited from C

ControlStyle

Gets the style of the Web server control. This property is use control developers.(Inherited from WebControl.)

ControlStyleCreated

Gets a value indicating whether a Style object has been creat the ControlStyle property. This property is primarily used by developers. (Inherited from WebControl.) Gets or sets the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) class rendered server control on the client. (Inherited from WebControl.)

CssClass

DataItemContainer

Gets a reference to the naming container if the naming conta implementsIDataItemContainer. (Inherited from Control.)

DataKeysContainer

Gets a reference to the naming container if the naming conta implementsIDataKeysControl. (Inherited from Control.)

DataMember

Gets or sets the name of the list of data that the data-bound c in cases where the data source contains more than one distinc items. (Inherited fromDataBoundControl.)

DataSource

Gets or sets the object from which the data-bound control ret of data items.(Inherited from BaseDataBoundControl.)

DataSourceID

Gets or sets the ID of the control from which the data-bound retrieves its list of data items. (Inherited from DataBoundCon

DataSourceObject

Gets an object that implements the IDataSource interface, wh access to the object's data content. (Inherited from DataBoun

DesignMode

Gets a value indicating whether a control is being used on a d surface. (Inherited fromControl.)

Enabled

Gets or sets a value indicating whether the Web server contro enabled. (Inherited fromWebControl.) Gets or sets a value indicating whether themes apply to this control. (Inherited fromWebControl.)

EnableTheming

EnableViewState

Gets or sets a value indicating whether the server control per state, and the view state of any child controls it contains, to t client. (Inherited from Control.)

Events

Gets a list of event handler delegates for the control. This pro only. (Inherited from Control.)

Font

Infrastructure. Gets the font properties associated with the ad banner control.(Overrides WebControl.Font.)

ForeColor

Gets or sets the foreground color (typically the color of the te server control.(Inherited from WebControl.)

HasAttributes

Gets a value indicating whether the control has attributes set. from WebControl.)

HasChildViewState

Gets a value indicating whether the current server control's c have any saved view-state settings. (Inherited from Control.) Gets or sets the height of the Web server control. (Inherited from WebControl.)

Height

ID

Gets or sets the programmatic identifier assigned to the serve control. (Inherited fromControl.) Infrastructure. Gets the character used to separate control identifiers. (Inherited from Control.)

IdSeparator

ImageUrlField

Gets or sets a custom data field to use in place of the ImageU for an advertisement.

Initialized

Gets a value indicating whether the data-bound control has b initialized. (Inherited fromBaseDataBoundControl.)

IsBoundUsingDataSourceID

Gets a value indicating whether the DataSourceID property i set. (Inherited fromBaseDataBoundControl.)

IsChildControlStateCleared

Gets a value indicating whether controls contained within thi control state.(Inherited from Control.)

IsEnabled

Gets a value indicating whether the control is enabled. (Inher from WebControl.)

IsTrackingViewState

Gets a value that indicates whether the server control is savin its view state.(Inherited from Control.)

IsViewStateEnabled

Gets a value indicating whether view state is enabled for this control. (Inherited from Control.)

KeywordFilter

Gets or sets a category keyword to filter for specific types of advertisements in the XML advertisement file.

LoadViewStateByID

Gets a value indicating whether the control participates in loa state by ID instead of index. (Inherited from Control.)

NamingContainer

Gets a reference to the server control's naming container, wh unique namespace for differentiating between server controls same Control.ID property value. (Inherited from Control.)

NavigateUrlField

Gets or sets a custom data field to use in place of the Naviga for an advertisement.

Page

Gets a reference to the Page instance that contains the server control. (Inherited fromControl.)

Parent

Gets a reference to the server control's parent control in the p hierarchy. (Inherited from Control.)

RenderingCompatibility

Gets a value that specifies the ASP.NET version that rendere be compatible with.(Inherited from Control.)

RequiresDataBinding

Gets or sets a value indicating whether the DataBind method called. (Inherited fromBaseDataBoundControl.)

SelectArguments

Gets a DataSourceSelectArguments object that the data-boun when retrieving data from a data source control. (Inherited from DataBoundControl.)

Site

Gets information about the container that hosts the current co rendered on a design surface. (Inherited from Control.)

SkinID Style

Gets or sets the skin to apply to the control. (Inherited from W

Gets a collection of text attributes that will be rendered as a s on the outer tag of the Web server control. (Inherited from W

SupportsDisabledAttribute

Gets a value that indicates whether the control should set the disabled attribute of the rendered HTML element to "dis the control's IsEnabled property is false.(Inherited from BaseDataBoundControl.)

TabIndex

Gets or sets the tab index of the Web server control. (Inherite from WebControl.) Gets the HTML tag for the AdRotator control. (Overrides WebControl.TagKey.)

TagKey

TagName

Gets the name of the control tag. This property is used prima developers.(Inherited from WebControl.)

Target

Gets or sets the name of the browser window or frame that d contents of the Web page linked to when the AdRotator con

TemplateControl

Gets or sets a reference to the template that contains this con from Control.)

TemplateSourceDirectory

Gets the virtual directory of the Page or UserControl that con current server control.(Inherited from Control.)

ToolTip

Gets or sets the text displayed when the mouse pointer hover server control.(Inherited from WebControl.) Gets the unique, hierarchically qualified identifier for the AdRotator control. (OverridesControl.UniqueID.)

UniqueID

ViewState

Gets a dictionary of state information that allows you to save the view state of a server control across multiple requests for page. (Inherited from Control.)

ViewStateIgnoresCase

Gets a value that indicates whether the StateBag object is cas insensitive. (Inherited fromControl.)

ViewStateMode

Gets or sets the view-state mode of this control. (Inherited fro

Visible

Gets or sets a value that indicates whether a server control is on the page.(Inherited from Control.) Gets or sets the width of the Web server control. (Inherited from WebControl.)

Width
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Methods
Name
AddAttributesToRender

Description

Adds HTML attributes and styles that need to be rendered to the specified HtmlTextWriterTag. This method is used primarily by control developers. (Inherited from WebControl.) Called after a child control is added to the Controls collection of the Control object. (Inherited from Control.)

AddedControl

AddParsedSubObject

Notifies the server control that an element, either XML or HTML, was p the element to the server control's ControlCollection object. (Inherited f

ApplyStyle

Copies any nonblank elements of the specified style to the Web control, existing style elements of the control. This method is primarily used by developers.(Inherited from WebControl.)

ApplyStyleSheetSkin

Applies the style properties defined in the page style sheet to the control fromControl.)

BuildProfileTree

Infrastructure. Gathers information about the server control and delivers the Traceproperty to be displayed when tracing is enabled for the page. from Control.)

ClearCachedClientID ClearChildControlState

Infrastructure. Sets the cached ClientID value to Nothing. (Inherited fro

Deletes the control-state information for the server control's child contro fromControl.)

ClearChildState

Deletes the view-state and control-state information for all the server co controls.(Inherited from Control.)

ClearChildViewState

Deletes the view-state information for all the server control's child contr fromControl.)

ClearEffectiveClientIDMode

Infrastructure. Sets the ClientIDMode property of the current control ins child controls to Inherit. (Inherited from Control.) Sets the initialized state of the data-bound control. (Inherited from BaseDataBoundControl.)

ConfirmInitState

CopyBaseAttributes

Copies the properties not encapsulated by the Style object from the spec control to the Web server control that this method is called from. This m primarily by control developers. (Inherited from WebControl.)

CreateChildControls

Called by the ASP.NET page framework to notify server controls that u based implementation to create any child controls they contain in prepar back or rendering. (Inherited from Control.) Creates a new ControlCollection object to hold the child controls (both of the server control. (Inherited from Control.)

CreateControlCollection

CreateControlStyle

Creates the style object that is used internally by the WebControl class t style related properties. This method is used primarily by control develo fromWebControl.)

CreateDataSourceSelectArguments

Creates a default DataSourceSelectArguments object used by the data-b arguments are specified. (Inherited from DataBoundControl.)

DataBind

Binds a data source to the invoked server control and all its child contro fromBaseDataBoundControl.)

DataBind(Boolean)

Binds a data source to the invoked server control and all its child contro raise the DataBinding event. (Inherited from Control.)

DataBindChildren Dispose

Binds a data source to the server control's child controls. (Inherited from

Enables a server control to perform final clean up before it is released fr memory. (Inherited from Control.)

EnsureChildControls

Determines whether the server control contains child controls. If it does controls. (Inherited from Control.)

EnsureDataBound

Calls the DataBind method if the DataSourceID property is set and the d is marked to require binding. (Inherited from BaseDataBoundControl.)

EnsureID

Creates an identifier for controls that do not have an identifier assigned. fromControl.)

Equals(Object)

Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object. from Object.)

Finalize

Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup oper reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.) Searches the current naming container for a server control with the specified id parameter.(Inherited from Control.)

FindControl(String)

FindControl(String, Int32)

Infrastructure. Searches the current naming container for a server contro specified idand an integer, specified in the pathOffset parameter, which You should not override this version of the FindControl method. (Inheri Sets input focus to a control. (Inherited from Control.)

Focus GetData

Retrieves a DataSourceView object that the data-bound control uses to p operations. (Inherited from DataBoundControl.)

GetDataSource

Retrieves the IDataSource interface that the data-bound control is associ any.(Inherited from DataBoundControl.)

GetDesignModeState GetHashCode GetRouteUrl(Object)

Infrastructure. Gets design-time data for a control. (Inherited from Cont Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.)

Gets the URL that corresponds to a set of route parameters. (Inherited fr

GetRouteUrl(RouteValueDictionary) Gets the URL that corresponds to a set of route parameters. (Inherited fr GetRouteUrl(String, Object)

Gets the URL that corresponds to a set of route parameters and a route n fromControl.)

GetRouteUrl(String, RouteValueDictionary) GetType GetUniqueIDRelativeTo

Gets the URL that corresponds to a set of route parameters and a route n fromControl.) Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.)

Returns the prefixed portion of the UniqueID property of the specified c fromControl.)

HasControls HasEvents

Determines if the server control contains any child controls. (Inherited f

Returns a value indicating whether events are registered for the control o

controls.(Inherited from Control.) IsLiteralContent

Infrastructure. Determines if the server control holds only literal content fromControl.)

LoadControlState

Restores control-state information from a previous page request that wa theSaveControlState method. (Inherited from Control.) Restores view-state information from a previous request that was saved the SaveViewStatemethod. (Inherited from WebControl.)

LoadViewState

MapPathSecure

Retrieves the physical path that a virtual path, either absolute or relative to. (Inherited from Control.)

MarkAsDataBound

Sets the state of the control in view state as successfully bound to data. ( fromDataBoundControl.) Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)

MemberwiseClone MergeStyle

Copies any nonblank elements of the specified style to the Web control, overwrite any existing style elements of the control. This method is used control developers.(Inherited from WebControl.) Raises the AdCreated event for the AdRotator control.

OnAdCreated OnBubbleEvent

Determines whether the event for the server control is passed up the pag control hierarchy. (Inherited from Control.) Raises the DataBinding event. (Inherited from Control.) Raises the DataBound event. (Inherited from BaseDataBoundControl.)

OnDataBinding OnDataBound OnDataPropertyChanged

Rebinds the data-bound control to its data after one of the base data sour properties changes. (Inherited from DataBoundControl.)

OnDataSourceViewChanged OnInit OnLoad OnPagePreLoad

Raises the DataSourceViewChanged event. (Inherited from DataBoundC

Raises the Init event. (Overrides BaseDataBoundControl.OnInit(EventA Handles the Control.Load event. (Inherited from DataBoundControl.)

Sets the initialized state of the data-bound control before the control is l fromDataBoundControl.)

OnPreRender

Gets the advertisement information for rendering by looking up the file user event. (Overrides BaseDataBoundControl.OnPreRender(EventArgs Raises the Unload event. (Inherited from Control.) Gets a Stream used to read a file. (Inherited from Control.)

OnUnload OpenFile PerformDataBinding

Binds the specified data source to the AdRotator control. (OverridesDataBoundControl.PerformDataBind Retrieves the advertisement data from the associated data source. (OverridesDataBoundControl.PerformSelect.)

PerformSelect

RaiseBubbleEvent

Assigns any sources of the event and its information to the control's pare fromControl.) Called after a child control is removed from the Controls collection of the Control object.(Inherited from Control.) Displays the AdRotator control on the client. (Overrides WebControl.Render(HtmlTextWriter).)

RemovedControl

Render

RenderBeginTag

Renders the HTML opening tag of the control to the specified writer. Th primarily by control developers. (Inherited from WebControl.)

RenderChildren

Outputs the content of a server control's children to a provided HtmlTex which writes the content to be rendered on the client. (Inherited from Co Renders the contents of the control to the specified writer. This method by control developers. (Inherited from WebControl.)

RenderContents

RenderControl(HtmlTextWriter)

Outputs server control content to a provided HtmlTextWriter object and information about the control if tracing is enabled. (Inherited from Cont

RenderControl(HtmlTextWriter, ControlAdapter) RenderEndTag

Outputs server control content to a provided HtmlTextWriter object usin providedControlAdapter object. (Inherited from Control.)

Renders the HTML closing tag of the control into the specified writer. T primarily by control developers. (Inherited from WebControl.) Gets the control adapter responsible for rendering the specified control. fromControl.)

ResolveAdapter

ResolveClientUrl ResolveUrl SaveControlState

Gets a URL that can be used by the browser. (Inherited from Control.)

Converts a URL into one that is usable on the requesting client. (Inherite

Saves any server control state changes that have occurred since the time posted back to the server. (Inherited from Control.)

SaveViewState

Saves any state that was modified after the TrackViewState method was invoked. (Inherited from WebControl.) Sets design-time data for a control. (Inherited from Control.)

SetDesignModeState SetRenderMethodDelegate

Infrastructure. Assigns an event handler delegate to render the server co content into its parent control. (Inherited from Control.)

ToString TrackViewState

Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Objec

Causes the control to track changes to its view state so they can be store object'sViewState property. (Inherited from WebControl.) Verifies that the object a data-bound control binds to is one it can work fromDataBoundControl.)

ValidateDataSource
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Events
Name
AdCreated

Description

Occurs once per round trip to the server after the creation of the control, but before the rendered.

DataBinding Occurs when the server control binds to a data source. (Inherited from Control.) DataBound Disposed

Occurs after the server control binds to a data source. (Inherited from BaseDataBoundC

Occurs when a server control is released from memory, which is the last stage of the se lifecycle when an ASP.NET page is requested. (Inherited from Control.)

Init

Occurs when the server control is initialized, which is the first step in its lifecycle. (Inh from Control.)

Load

Occurs when the server control is loaded into the Page object. (Inherited from Control.

PreRender Unload
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Occurs after the Control object is loaded but prior to rendering. (Inherited from Contro Occurs when the server control is unloaded from memory. (Inherited from Control.)

Extension Methods
Name Description

EnablePersistedSelection Enables selection to be persisted in data controls that support selection and paging. (Defined byDynamicDataExtensions.) FindDataSourceControl

Returns the data source that is associated with the data control for the spec control. (Defined byDynamicDataExtensions.)

FindFieldTemplate

Returns the field template for the specified column in the specified control container. (Defined byDynamicDataExtensions.) Returns the metatable object for the containing data control. (Defined by DynamicDataExtensions.)

FindMetaTable
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Explicit Interface Implementations

Description

Infrastructure. Gets an attribute of the Web control specified name.(Inherited from WebControl.)

IAttributeAccessor.SetAttribute

Sets an attribute of the Web control to the specified value. (Inherited from WebControl.)

IControlBuilderAccessor.ControlBuilder

For a description of this member, see IControlBuilderAccessor.ControlBuilder.(Inhe from Control.)

IControlDesignerAccessor.GetDesignModeState For a description of this member, seeIControlDesignerAccessor.GetDesignModeStat from Control.)

IControlDesignerAccessor.SetDesignModeState For a description of this member, seeIControlDesignerAccessor.SetDesignModeStat

from Control.) IControlDesignerAccessor.SetOwnerControl

Infrastructure. For a description of this member, seeIControlDesignerAccessor.SetOwnerControl. (I from Control.)

IControlDesignerAccessor.UserData

For a description of this member, see IControlDesignerAccessor.UserData.(Inherited from Control.)

IDataBindingsAccessor.DataBindings

For a description of this member, see IDataBindingsAccessor.DataBindings.(Inherite from Control.)

IDataBindingsAccessor.HasDataBindings

For a description of this member, see IDataBindingsAccessor.HasDataBindings.(Inh from Control.) For a description of this member, see IExpressionsAccessor.Expressions. (Inherited

IExpressionsAccessor.Expressions

IExpressionsAccessor.HasExpressions

For a description of this member, see IExpressionsAccessor.HasExpressions.(Inherit from Control.)

IParserAccessor.AddParsedSubObject

For a description of this member, see IParserAccessor.AddParsedSubObject.(Inherit from Control.)

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Remarks
In this topic: Introduction XML Advertisement File Format Declarative Syntax

Introduction
Use the AdRotator control to display a randomly selected advertisement banner on the Web page. The displayed advertisement changes whenever the page refreshes.

Advertisement information is stored in a separate XML file. The XML file allows you to maintain a list of advertisements and their associated attributes. Attributes include the path to an image to display, the URL to link to when the control is clicked, the alternate text to display when the image is not available, a keyword, and the frequency of the advertisement. Information in this file is not validated by the AdRotator control. To prevent ads from executing malicious scripts, you should always check the data before releasing it, or accept ad information only from trusted sources. To secure your advertisement file from unauthorized Internet access, do one or more of the following: Store it in the App_Data directory, which is configured to deny Internet access for files of any type. Rename the file with an extension that is not .xml, and map the extension to the HttpForbiddenHandler in Web.config. For more information, see the httpHandlers section in your Machine.config file. As an alternative to an XML file as the source of data, it is possible to provide advertisement information through a callback event. This event can also be used in combination with the XML file to extend the behavior of the AdRotator control, such as redirecting to another page. See theAdvertisementFile property for additional information on the file format.

Note

When page caching is enabled, an AdRotator control is not cached. A new advertisement is selected whenever t page refreshes. A new advertisement is not selected, however, if you provide an event handler for the AdCreated
XML Advertisement File Format
The AdRotator control uses a separate XML advertisement file to store the advertisement information, such as the location of the image to display and the URL of the page to link to. The AdvertisementFile property of the AdRotator control specifies the path to this file.

<Advertisements> tags mark the beginning and the end of the file, respectively. Opening and closing <Ad> tags delimit each
When creating the advertisement file, opening and closing advertisement. All advertisements are nested between the opening and closing <Advertisements>tags. If the file contains multiple <Advertisements> tags, only the first set of <Advertisements> tags in the file will be parsed by the AdRotatorcontrol. All other <Advertisements> tags will be ignored. The data elements for each advertisement are nested between the opening and closing <Ad> tags. Although certain data elements are predefined (such as ImageUrl and NavigateUrl), you can place custom elements between the <Ad> tags. These elements will be read by the AdRotator control when it parses the file. The information is then passed to the AdCreated event in the AdProperties dictionary property. The following table lists the data elements that are predefined for the XML advertisement file.

Element
ImageUrl NavigateUrl

Description
The absolute or relative URL to an image file (optional). The URL of a page to link to if the user clicks the ad (optional). Note If this element is not set, the HRef property is not rendered on the anchor tag. The height of the image, in pixels (optional). The width of the image, in pixels (optional).

Height Width

AlternateText The text display in place of the image when the image specified by the ImageUrl property is not (optional). In some browsers, this text also appears as a ToolTip for the advertisement. Keyword Impressions A category for the advertisement (for example, "computers") that you can filter by (optional). A number that indicates the importance of the ad in the schedule of rotation relative to the other (optional).

The larger the number, the more often the ad is displayed. The total of all <Impressions> values file cannot exceed 2,047,999,999. If it does, the AdRotator control throws a run-time exception
The following example shows the format for the XML advertisement file. <Advertisements> <Ad> <ImageUrl> URL of image to display for Advertisement #1 </ImageUrl> <NavigateUrl> URL of page to link to for Advertisement #1 </NavigateUrl> <AlternateText> Text to show as a ToolTip for Advertisement #1 </AlternateText> <Keyword> Keyword used to filter for Advertisement #1 </Keyword> <Impressions> Relative importance of Advertisement #1 </Impressions> <CustomInformation> Custom Data about Advertisement #1 </CustomInformation> </Ad> </Advertisements>

Declarative Syntax
<asp:AdRotator AccessKey="string" AdvertisementFile="uri" AlternateTextField="string" BackColor="color name|#dddddd" BorderColor="color name|#dddddd" BorderStyle="NotSet|None|Dotted|Dashed|Solid|Double|Groove|Ridge| Inset|Outset" BorderWidth="size" CssClass="string" DataMember="string" DataSource="string" DataSourceID="string" Enabled="True|False" EnableTheming="True|False" EnableViewState="True|False" ForeColor="color name|#dddddd" Height="size" ID="string" ImageUrlField="string" KeywordFilter="string" NavigateUrlField="string" OnAdCreated="AdCreated event handler" OnDataBinding="DataBinding event handler" OnDataBound="DataBound event handler" OnDisposed="Disposed event handler" OnInit="Init event handler" OnLoad="Load event handler" OnPreRender="PreRender event handler" OnUnload="Unload event handler" runat="server" SkinID="string" Style="string" TabIndex="integer" Target="string|_blank|_parent|_search|_self|_top" ToolTip="string" Visible="True|False" Width="size" />

Topic
How to: Display Ads From an XML File Using the AdRotator Web Server Control How to: Display Ads From a Database Using the AdRotator Web Server Control

Location

Building ASP .NET Web Applicati

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How to: Select Ads in an AdRotator Web Server Control Programmatically Building ASP .NET Web Applicati

Topic
How to: Display Ads From an XML File Using the AdRotator Web Server Control How to: Display Ads From a Database Using the AdRotator Web Server Control

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Building ASP .NET Web Applicati

Building ASP .NET Web Applicati

How to: Select Ads in an AdRotator Web Server Control Programmatically Building ASP .NET Web Applicati

Walkthrough: Displaying and Tracking Advertisements with the AdRotator Building ASP .NET Web Applicati Control Studio

Examples
The following code example demonstrates how to use the AdRotator control to display an advertisement banner on a Web page. C# VB <%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="True" %> <!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>AdRotator Example</title> </head> <body> <form id="form1" runat="server"> <h3>AdRotator Example</h3> <asp:AdRotator id="AdRotator1" runat="server" Target="_self" AdvertisementFile="~/App_Data/Ads.xml"/> </form> </body> </html>

The following code example demonstrates the file format for an XML file that contains advertisement information for the previous example. For more information on the file format, see the AdvertisementFile member.

<Advertisements> <Ad> <ImageUrl>~/Images/image1.jpg</ImageUrl> <height>60</height> <width>190</width> <NavigateUrl>http://www.microsoft.com</NavigateUrl> <AlternateText>Microsoft Main Site</AlternateText> <Impressions>80</Impressions> <Keyword>Topic1</Keyword> </Ad> <Ad> <ImageUrl>~/Images/image2.jpg</ImageUrl> <height>90</height> <width>90</width> <NavigateUrl>http://www.wingtiptoys.com</NavigateUrl> <AlternateText>Wingtip Toys</AlternateText> <Impressions>80</Impressions> <Keyword>Topic2</Keyword> </Ad> </Advertisements>