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Chris Douglass
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Posted 07 Aug 2008
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Hmm, I thought this control would have some core functions required to implement an ad rotator but it seems to have a different focus. Do you have any examples of using it to rotate ads on when a user loads a new page, not based on a timer interval?
I'm starting to realize that this component doesn't really offer any benefit for the purpose of rotating ads on page loads... Don't most people need a basic ad rotator?? Dynamic client-side content rotation isn't the most common use case I would suspect for a rotator component to target, but maybe I'm wrong.
Any suggestions on where to find a good ad rotator that would:
- load a random image from a datasource on each page load
- track the number of times an inage is displayed
- launch a URL onClick based on the URL associated with each image in the datasource
- drop images from rotation when the number of views is exceeded
- display default images when ad inventory is depeleted
Thanks for any suggestions!
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Member since:
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Posted 07 Aug 2008
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Microsoft has included an AdRotator control with their standard asp controls since the 1.1 version of the .NET Framework. It can be bent to do exactly as you have described.
<asp:AdRotator ... />
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