Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows Phone 7 - March 2011 (Deprecated)

Monetize your Windows Phone 7 applications and games by including ads from Microsoft Advertising. The Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows Phone enables you to create applications that can do the following:

• Easily integrate text and banner ads into your applications and games.
  
  
• Provide a monetization solution that maximizes in-app advertising revenues by unlocking the power of multiple sales channels competing in real time to purchase your ad inventory.
  
  
• Provide various ad targeting capabilities to deliver the most relevant ads to your users.
  
  
• Seamlessly handle impression reporting.
  
  

The ads shown in Windows Phone 7 applications and games are integrated with Microsoft pubCenter for real-time monitoring of how your ads are performing.

In Windows Phone 7 applications, the AdControl receives and shows ads from the Microsoft Ad Exchange. The AdControl is for use in Windows Phone 7 Silverlight-based applications.

In Windows Phone 7 games, the Ad class, along with the AdManager class, receives and shows ads from the Microsoft Ad Exchange. The Ad class and the AdManager class are for use in Windows Phone 7 XNA-based games.

The Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows Phone is divided into the following main sections.

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