Using the Silverlight API for Windows Phone

1. Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (or Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express)

2. Windows Phone Developer Tools

3. Microsoft Advertising Ad Control SDK for Windows Phone

   Follow Steps 1 through 7 in the topic How to: Create Your First Silverlight Application for Windows Phone

   Important
   The purpose of each code sample provided in this documentation is to illustrate a concept and related syntax. Samples do not include all the code that is found in a full production system. For example, data validation and error handling code is not included. Technical support is not available for these samples or for any included source code.

   A complete working app, with code for using geo location ad targeting, margin thickness, and the events AdRefreshed and ErrorOccurred is available for download at code.microsoft.com.

1. If you haven’t done so already as part of the Prerequisites, above, follow Steps 1 through 7 in the topic How to: Create Your First Silverlight Application for Windows Phone.

2. In Visual Studio Solution Explorer, right-click References under your project and click Add Reference….

   

3. In the Add Reference dialog box, click the .NET tab. Click Microsoft.Advertising.Mobile.UI.dll entry to select it, and click OK.

   

4. In the Solution Explorer panel, you will see the Microsoft.Advertising.Mobile.UI.dll listed in the References folder of your project.

   

5. In the source file that you want to use to program the AdControl, add the following code in the using section of your code.

   using Microsoft.Advertising.Mobile.UI;

6. In your code, you will create an instance of the AdControl and set its properties. This example uses the default main page of the project MainPage.xaml.cs. The following code creates the adControl object in the MainPage constructor.

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   // Constructor
   public MainPage()
   {
   InitializeComponent();
    
          // ApplicationID = "Test_client", AdUnitID = "Image480_80", 
   
          AdControl adControl = new AdControl("test_client",   // ApplicationID
                                              "Image480_80",   // AdUnitID
                                              true);           // isAutoRefreshEnabled
         // Make the AdControl size large enough that it can contain the image
         adControl.Width = 480;
         adControl.Height = 80;
   }
   
   

7. Add the adControl object to your application page layout. In the following code, the application page layout has two child elements: a StackPanel (this.LayoutRoot.Children[0]) and a Grid (this.LayoutRoot.Children[1]). The following code makes the adControl object a child of the Grid.

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   Grid grid = (Grid)this.LayoutRoot.Children[1];
   grid.Children.Add(adControl);
   

   Your entire MainPage() code will look like this.

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           // Constructor
           public MainPage()
           {
               InitializeComponent();
   
               // ApplicationID = "Test_client", AdUnitID = "Image480_80", 
   
               AdControl adControl = new AdControl("test_client",   // ApplicationID
                                                   "Image480_80",   // AdUnitID
                                                   true);           // isAutoRefreshEnabled
               // Make the AdControl size large enough that it can contain the image
               adControl.Width = 480;
               adControl.Height = 80;
   
               Grid grid = (Grid)this.LayoutRoot.Children[1];
               grid.Children.Add(adControl);
           }
   
   

8. Run your application and you will see a sample test ad.

   

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