Preface When you use the Microsoft Advertising Services, adding AdControls to your app is the easy part of the job (see my posts with a sample showing all the available ad types and how to configure AdControls to make it easy to switch between test mode and production ad). The …
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Preface The Do’s + Don’ts of the Advertising SDK say “DO plan for times when no ads are available.” The links of that item leads to the ErrorCode enumeration and a rudimentarily error handling sample, writing text to debug output. In this post, I will show an error handling where …
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Preface According to the documentation, AdControls are hosted in a WebView control. For some reasons I was not able to figure out, WebView controls do not slide in when a page loads (or pop in, whatever the correct wording is). This means that your AdControl will not slide in neither. …
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Preface The Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows 8 allows developers to show ads in their apps. When you look at the walkthrough for putting ads in an app using XAML/C#, you can see that you have to set the ApplicationId and AdUnitId property of each AdControl control in your app. …
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Microsoft has updated the list of possible advertising test modes. So I updated the Test Mode Sample as well. You can find the latest version in this post.
Microsoft offers a very simple way to show advertising in Windows Store apps. A starting point is adsinapps.microsoft.com. The Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows 8 can be found here: msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh506371%28v=msads.10%29.aspx. The SDK docs lead you to a document, listing all the possible advertising test modes with their appropriate test values: …
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