Using AdRotator in Asp.Net

To use AdRotator in Asp.Net you need to follow the following steps:

1. Create an aspx page, AdRotator.aspx

2. Add an AdRotator control to your page
Here AdvertisementFile contains url of the XML file, which is used to store the ad information.

3. Add an XML file to your project, adrotator.xml, the XML file must begin and end with an <Advertisements> tag. Inside the  <Advertisements> tag there may be several <Ad> tags which defines each ad.

adrotator.xml:

  
    Images/ad1.jpg
    http://www.google.com
    Alternate Text 1
    Keyword 1
    10
  
  
    Images/ad2.jpg
    http://www.google.com
    Alternate Text 2
    Keyword 2
    20
  
  
    Images/ad4.jpg
    http://www.google.com
    Alternate Text 3
    Keyword 3
    40
  

Here,
<ImageUrl>          The path to the image file
<NavigateUrl>      The URL to link to if the user clicks the ad
<AlternateText>    An alternate text for the image
<Keyword>          A category for the ad
 <Impressions>    The display rates in percent of the hits

Using Asp.Net User Control

To use Asp.Net User Control, you should follow the following steps:

1. Create a user control in your project, user control has .ascx extension and give it a name, here I have a user control named AddressUC.ascx

2. Add controls that you want the user control to display, For eg:

3. Add code for the tasks that the user control will perform, and create properties in the control if you want to be able to share information between the user control and the hosting page. For eg:

public partial class AddressUC : System.Web.UI.UserControl
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
            
    }

    public class AddressEventAgrs : EventArgs
    {
        public AddressEventAgrs(string addressLine1, string addressLine2, string city, string state, string zip)
        {
            this.AddressLine1 = addressLine1;
            this.AddressLine2 = addressLine2;
            this.City = city;
            this.State = state;
            this.Zip = zip;
        }
        public string AddressLine1 { get; private set; }
        public string AddressLine2 { get; private set; }
        public string City { get; private set; }
        public string State { get; private set; }
        public string Zip { get; private set; }
    }

    public delegate void SaveButtonClickHandler(object sender, AddressEventAgrs e);
    public event SaveButtonClickHandler SaveButtonClick;

    //function to display a message to user
    private void MessageBox(string msg)
    {
        Label lbl = new Label();
        lbl.Font.Bold = true;
        lbl.Text = "";
        Page.Controls.Add(lbl);
    }

    //code for SAVE button click
    protected void ButtonSave_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        if (SaveButtonClick != null)
        {
            SaveButtonClick(this, new AddressEventAgrs(txtAddressLine1.Text, txtAddressLine2.Text, txtCity.Text, txtState.Text, txtZip.Text));
        }
        if (txtAddressLine1.Text == string.Empty & txtCity.Text == string.Empty & txtState.Text == string.Empty & txtZip.Text == string.Empty)
        {
            MessageBox("Please enter all the information !");
        }
        else
        {
            MessageBox("You entered following information \\n\\nAddress: " + txtAddressLine1.Text + " "+txtAddressLine2.Text + "\\nCity: " + txtCity.Text + "\\nState: " + txtState.Text + "\\nZip: " + txtZip.Text);
        }
    }
}

4. Create an aspx page on which you want to use the user control, I have an aspx page named UserControl.aspx

5. Create an @Register directive on UserControl.aspx page that includes:

6. Add following code to UserControl.aspx page

public partial class UserControl : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        Control form = Page.FindControl("Form1");
        AddressUC uc = (AddressUC)LoadControl("AddressUC.ascx");
        form.Controls.Add(uc); 
    }
}

7.When you will run your UserControl.aspx page you will get something like:

Passing data from one webpage to another in Asp.net using Cross-Page Posting

Cross-page posting is used when data is collected on one web page and processed on another web page. To do this following steps should be followed:

1. Create a aspx page to collect data from user and name it as GetData.aspx. This form should look something like this:

2. Set the post back url of the SUBMIT button to the second page (DisplayData.aspx)

3. Code the cs file of GetData

public partial class GetData : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {

    }

    //code for SUBMIT button
    protected void btnSubmit_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        //if user has selected a picture then save it into the Images folder
        if (FileUpload1.HasFile)
            FileUpload1.SaveAs(MapPath("~/Images/" + FileUpload1.FileName));
        String filename = FileUpload1.FileName;
    }

    //define public properties which return information collected on the data collection page
    //property to return the name of person
    public string PageData1
    {
        get { return txtName.Text; }
    }

    //property to return the gender of person
    public string PageData2
    {
        get
        {
            if (RadioButtonMale.Checked)
                return RadioButtonMale.Text;
            else
                return RadioButtonFemale.Text;
        }
    }

    //property to return the address of person
    public string PageData3
    {
        get { return txtAddress.Text; }
    }

    //property to return the phone of person
    public string PageData4
    {
        get { return txtPhone.Text; }
    }

    //property to return the email of person
    public string PageData5
    {
        get { return txtEmail.Text; }
    }

    //property to return the photo of person
    public string PageData6
    {
        get { return FileUpload1.FileName; }
    }
}

4. Create a aspx page to process GetData.aspx's data and display it, name this aspx page as DisplayData.aspx, this page should look something like this:

5. Set the PreviousPageType directive on the processing page to point to the data collection page.

6. Code the cs file of DisplayData

public partial class DisplayData : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        lblShowName.Text = PreviousPage.PageData1;
        lblShowGender.Text = PreviousPage.PageData2;
        lblShowAddress.Text = PreviousPage.PageData3;
        lblShowPhone.Text = PreviousPage.PageData4;
        lblShowEmail.Text = PreviousPage.PageData5;
        Image1.ImageUrl = "~/Images/" + PreviousPage.PageData6;
    }
}

7. Now when you run this application you will get something like this:

Using Multiview control in asp.net

To use Multiview control in asp.net first create an aspx page which looks something like this:

I have used three view inside a multiview control, one for personal information of a person, second for address, and third to upload the picture and submit.

Code for cs file:

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    //set the active view on page load
    MultiView1.SetActiveView(View1);
}
protected void Button1Continue_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    //when user click continue on view 1 set view 2 as active view
    MultiView1.SetActiveView(View2);  
}
protected void Button1Back_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    //when user clicks back button on view 2 set view 1 as active view
    MultiView1.SetActiveView(View1);
}
protected void Button2Continue_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    //when user click continue on view 2 set view 2 as active view
    MultiView1.SetActiveView(View3);
}
protected void Button2Back_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    //when user clicks back button on view 3 set view 2 as active view
    MultiView1.SetActiveView(View2);
}
protected void Button3Continue_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    //on submit button click the image uploaded by the user is saved into the Images folder in the project
    if (FileUpload1.HasFile)
        FileUpload1.SaveAs(MapPath("~/Images/" + FileUpload1.FileName));
}

When you run this, on startup only the first view that is regarding personal information will be displayed and when you fill the information and click continue second view is displayed and so on....

Pass Data from one form to another

To pass data from one form to another first you need to create two forms, one in which user will enter the information and second to display that information. The two forms will look something like:

Code to pass data from one form to another

//code for form 1
//code for SHOW button

//check if user has entered complete information
//if user has not entered complete information display a message to enter complete information
if (txtName.Text == "" && txtEmail.Text == "" && txtPhone.Text == "" && txtUsername.Text == "" && txtPassword.Text == "")
{
    MessageBox.Show("Enter complete information");
}
            
//if user has entered complete information
else
{
    //assign the form 1 control values to form 2 variables
    Form2.name = txtName.Text;
    Form2.phone = txtPhone.Text;
    Form2.email = txtEmail.Text;
    Form2.username = txtUsername.Text;

    //create an object of second form
    Form2 form2 = new Form2();

    //show the form by passing values
    form2.ShowDialog();

//code for form 2
public partial class Form2 : Form
{
    //declare variables 
    public static string name, email, phone, username;

    public Form2()
    {
        InitializeComponent();

        //assign the previous page values to the current page controls
        lblName.Text = name;
        lblShowPhone.Text = phone;
        lblShowUsername.Text = username;
        lblShowEmail.Text = email;
    }
}