Showing posts with label via. Show all posts
Showing posts with label via. Show all posts

Monday, March 26, 2012

Interactive ads with atlas

Hi All,
The ads industry are generally the first to embrace new web standards.
Currently most interactive ads are done via flash but atlas could be used to easily create browser comilent interactive ads as well
Is there any atlas support class/libaray's for displaying ads (adsense or adcenter ads)?
regards
slyiThere's nothing specific for the moment. What kind of features would you expect?
Provide libary or examples for site developers to take a SOAP feed from adwords or adcenter and display the ads in customisable/dynamic with atlas.
Eg: MSN Spaces in the UK uses a nice ad format with small (not in your face) pictures seehttp://spaces.msn.com/members/msncomtips/?mkt=en-gb, much nicer than the standard banner on top of this site for instance.
or the context smart tags ads eg:http://www.neowin.net/
A lot of developers need to show ads on their site but including adwords standard JS scripts isnt very customisable.
eg: Sites want to display ads but dont want competiers ads to appear on top of their site.
MS should enable dev's to easily display ads on a site.
My two cents

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Is is possible to trace and/or log HTTP requests made by ATLAS components?

I'd like to be able to trace any HTTP requests made to the server via ATLAS components. My understanding is that everytime the ATLAS framework uses the XmlHttpRequest object an HTTP operation (GET/POST) is issued to the server, I'd like to be able to log those requests and somehow I'm not able to see them via the trace.axd or IIS log.Not sure why you can't see them in the IIS log (are they being filtered out?), but you could see whats happening in the browser via a HTTP tracing tool. I have one as part of my Web Development Helper (athttp://www.nikhilk.net/Project.WebDevHelper.aspx) Hope that helps...
Thanks Nikhil for your reply. I noticed that all of the samples I was trying were posting to web services, for which I was seeing the corresponding requests in the logs. I installed the Web Development Helper and it is very helpful, I was looking for a tool like that, thanks for the tip!

There is a really valuable tool available for watching HTTP traffic in real time.

http://www.fiddlertool.com/fiddler/

This tool will let you watch all incoming/outgoing traffic and you can put breakpoints on the traffic and "fiddle" with it. Hope it can be of use to you!