Drag and Drop Using the Visual Studio 2012 Designer

• Before you can use the SDK, you must have Windows 8, a version of Visual Studio 2012 Windows 8, and the SDK installed on your system. For more information, see Getting Started.

1. In Visual Studio, open the FILE menu and click New Project…. The New Project window is shown.

   

2. From the Templates section (on the left), expand Visual C# and click Windows style. Click Blank App (XAML). Name the project (for example, AdControlTest) and click OK.

3. In the Toolbox, you should see the AdControl in the Windows Advertising tab. Hint: If no controls are shown you may need to right click in the Toolbox and select Show All.

   

4. In the Solution Explorer window, double click MainPage.xaml. Visual Studio will load the Designer on the MainPage.xaml tab.

   

5. Drag and drop the AdControl into the Application Designer. Position the AdControl so that it is fully visible in the Application Designer.

   

6. If you want to explore the properties of the AdControl, in the Application Designer click the AdControl, then in the Properties window expand the Advertising category.

7. Compile and run the app to see it with an ad, similar to the following:

   

Consult the TestMode topic for various AdUnitId types to see a variety of ad sizes.

See the API Reference for additional targeting properties, methods for doing manual ad refreshes, and callback functions.

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