A Silverlight 2 Ad Rotator
I’ve been learning how to build Silverlight 2 Custom Controls and wanted to share my first one. Since I work with a number of creative agencies, I thought that an Ad Rotator would be relevant; this one can rotate ads that are images, video, or XAML.
I’ve also worked hard to make it easy for designers to use. To do this, I’ve created a design-time graphic that shows up only in Expression Blend and added Category and Description attributes to the control properties.
If you want to use the AdRotator in a Silverlight application, here’s what you do:
- Download the source code from the MSDN Code Gallery.
- In Expression Blend or Visual Studio add a reference to the AdRotatorLibrary\Bin\Release\AdRotatorLibrary.dll
- From the Assets panel Custom Controls Tab in Expression Blend, drag a AdRotator onto your page
- Create an Advertisement XML file using the ASP.net Ad rotator format.
- Select the AdRotator control and pick the Format and Source in the Ad Properties
Tell me what you think.
Design-time view
Ad Category Attribute and Format Description Attribute
