Today, Instance Factory’s first app was launched in the Windows Store. It’s a slightly enhanced version of the AdControl Config Sample. It passed the certification in the first attempt 🙂
Category: Windows 8
Microsoft Advertising Services AdControl Error Handling in XAML/C#
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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Configure Microsoft Advertising Services’ AdControl using XAML/C#
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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Update: Microsoft Advertising Services Test Mode Sample for Windows 8 Version 3.0
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 Advertising Services Test Mode Sample for Windows 8
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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Manage Wireless Networks in Windows 8
For whatever reason, Microsoft decided to remove the “Manage wireless networks” from the Network and Sharing Center. As long as you want to manage the connection to a network you are already connected to, that’s no problem. Just right-click the properties of this connection. Managing a not connected wireless network …