Code to Display Targeted Advertisements on an Asp.Net Web Form

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11/12/2009
Use the following code to create a targeting profile, create a user profile, run the content selector object, and display targeted advertisements on an ASP.NET Web form. The code should be used within a Commerce Server project. For more information about creating a Commerce Server project, see Creating a Commerce Project.
<%@ Page Language="C#" Debug="true" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="Microsoft.CommerceServer.Runtime" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="Microsoft.CommerceServer.Runtime.Profiles" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="Microsoft.CommerceServer.Runtime.Caching" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="Microsoft.CommerceServer.Runtime.Targeting" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="Microsoft.CommerceServer.Runtime.Pipelines" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="Microsoft.CommerceServer.Runtime.Diagnostics" %>

<HTML>
    <HEAD>
        <script language="C#" >

          public void ShowAds_OnClick(Object sender, EventArgs args)
          {
              CommerceContext csContext = CommerceContext.Current;
              //
             // Create a targeting profile.
             //
             csContext.TargetingSystem.TargetingContextProfile["PageGroup"].Value = "Sports";
                //
                // Create a user profile
                //
             Guid guid = Guid.NewGuid();
             Profile userProfile = csContext.ProfileSystem.CreateProfile
                                                             (
                                                                 guid.ToString(),
                                                                 "UserObject"
                                                             );
                //
                // Get a ContentSelector and set its properties
                //
                ContentSelector cso = csContext.TargetingSystem.SelectionContexts["advertising"].GetSelector();

                cso.Profiles.Add("targetingContext", csContext.TargetingSystem.TargetingContextProfile);
                cso.Profiles.Add("user", userProfile);
                cso.TraceMode = true;
                cso.ItemsRequested = 2;
                cso.Size = "Half";
                //
                // Get some content
                //
                StringCollection content = cso.GetContent();
                //
                // Bind the results to a repeater
                //
                if (content.Count > 0)
                {
                   repeaterShowAds.DataSource = content;
                   repeaterShowAds.DataBind();
                }
                //
                // Dump out Trace Messages
                //
                if (cso.TraceMessages != null)
                {
                    csContext.DebugContext.Trace("Targeting Sample", "Trace Messages");
                    int index = 0;
                    foreach (StringCollection messages in cso.TraceMessages)
                    {
                        csContext.DebugContext.Trace("Targeting Sample", "Content item row index=" + index++);
                        foreach (string message in messages)
                        {
                           csContext.DebugContext.Trace("Targeting Sample", message);
                        }
                    }
                    if (index == 0)
                    {
                       csContext.DebugContext.Trace("Targeting Sample", "It looks like there were no ads on schedule");
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                   csContext.DebugContext.Trace("Targeting Sample", "ContentSelection tracing is unavailable.");
                }
                csContext.DebugContext.Trace("Targeting Sample", "Dumping out contents of selectionContext...");
                ContentSelectionContext selectionContext = csContext.TargetingSystem.SelectionContexts["advertising"];
                foreach (string key in selectionContext)
                {
                   csContext.DebugContext.Trace("Targeting Sample", "key=" + key + " value=" + selectionContext[key].ToString());
                }
            }
        </script>
    </HEAD>
    <body>
        <form ID="Targeting" method="post" >
            <h3 id="H31" align="left" >
                Display an advertisement targeting the UserObject and TargetingContext 
                profiles.</h3>
            <H4 class="dtH4">You should create an ad with a Target Group associated with the <B>Sports</B>
                page group before running this example.&nbsp;</H4>
            <P class="dtH4">
                <asp:Button id="ButtonShowAds" Text="Show Sports Ads"  OnClick="ShowAds_OnClick" /></P>
            <P class="dtH4">
                <asp:Repeater id="repeaterShowAds" >
                    <HeaderTemplate>
                        <table border="1">
                            <tr>
                                <td><b>Sports Ads</b></td>
                            </tr>
                    </HeaderTemplate>
                    <ItemTemplate>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <%# Container.DataItem %>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                    </ItemTemplate>
                    <FooterTemplate>
                        </TABLE>
                    </FooterTemplate>
                </asp:Repeater></P>
        </form>
    </body>
</HTML>
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