Hi all,

 we wrote a small web application and we want to "mimic" it's functionality in a VB2005 project.

 One of the things that i don't know for sure is to display web ads in a windows form. Something like the AdRotator but for VB2005.

 is this possible? if so, how do i do it?

TIA!

You can implement similar control that would reads image URLs and 'Navigate To' URL from an XML file, download and display images and launch browser with given URL when user clicks on the ad.

Thanks for the tip Mikhail.

 So there is no direct way to use the webcontrol in the windows form?

I can think of different ways to do this then, but will kindly appreciate your thoughts on this matter (so i don't take the long route)

can you demo me a little bit more, I am kind of new to VB2005. which components will you use?

Thanks again!

No, there is no direct way. There is a big difference beween Web controls and Windows Forms controls. Web Controls do not render themselves - they output HTML that designer (or browser at run time) is supposed to render appropriately. Windows Form controls draw themselves directly in the client window. Windows Form does not render HTML and it does not run control code (which normally runs in a Web server environment that Windows Form does not provide).

All what I did for this to work is the following

1. Created a Table in my database to store (ID, AdName, AdImageURL, AdURL)

2. Create a DataSet conection to this Table

3. Create a Class to be used for Random Webpage Ads in VB2005.

Public URLref As String

Public URLimg As String

Dim DSWebAds As New WebAds 'Dataset

End Class

4.  Now in the form I insert an Image Object to retain the image once loaded.

5. Public a variable

Public USR_MENUads As New WebAds

6. In the form Activated code I type:

7. in the Image Click event type:

Note: Remember to change the move over to the "hand" to make it look better :)

Enjoy!