AdRotator not working with IE8

[Malhoosh]

Hello,

I have a problem using the AdRotator control with Internet Explorer 8. It works fine with Mozilla Firefox but with IE8 neither the Ad image appear nor the NavigateURL work.Here's an example of the Ad code:

<Ad>
<ImageUrl>
/Images2/googleAd.gif
</ImageUrl>
<NavigateUrl>
http://www.google.com.eg/
</NavigateUrl>
<AlternateText>
Ad to google home page
</AlternateText>
<Keyword>
Google
</Keyword>
<Impressions>
40
</Impressions>
</Ad>

But again it works fine with Mozilla Firefox. I can't use the Mozilla Firefox instead, I have to use IE8 for certain reasons.

I'm using Visual Studio 2008, VB Web application

I appreciate your help !

[Hack]

Moved To ASP.NET

[gep13]

Hello Malhoosh,

Sorry for taking so long to look at this thread.

When you say it doesn't work, can you provide more information? Do the images simply not appear? Or are there some JavaScript errors on the page?

In order to help you, we are going to need some more information.

Gary

[Malhoosh]

Thank you for your reply :

An update to the question:

The AdRotator is not working at all neither with IE or Mozilla now. (I was testing it on a different machine)

Here is the problem in details:


Here's the complete xml file "MyAds.xml":

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Advertisements>
  <Ad>
    <ImageUrl>
     ~/Images2/googleAd.gif
    </ImageUrl>
    <NavigateUrl>
      http://www.google.com.eg/
    </NavigateUrl>
    <AlternateText>
      Ad to google home page
    </AlternateText>
    <Keyword>
    Google  
    </Keyword>
    <Impressions>
    40
    </Impressions>
  </Ad>

  <Ad>
    <ImageUrl>
      ~/Images2/msdnAdgif
    </ImageUrl>
    <NavigateUrl>
      http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.webcontrols.adrotator.aspx
    </NavigateUrl>
    <AlternateText>
      Ad to an msdn page
    </AlternateText>
    <Keyword>
  Microsoft 
    </Keyword>
    <Impressions>
    40
    </Impressions>
  </Ad>
  
  
</Advertisements>

Here's the AdRotator itself:

 <asp:AdRotator ID="AdRotator1" runat="server" 
                    AdvertisementFile="~/App_Data/MyAds.xml" Height="107px" Width="435px" />

When I run the program, the result is:

1- The image does not appear, only the Alternate text does
2- When I click the Alternate text (having the link), : I get this message :
Server Error in '/' Application.
HTTP Error 400 - Bad Request.

[sapator]

Hi.What i can think of is that you either have the xml wrong but i cannot help since i have never dealt with add rotator or there is something that the rotator does not like when using width and height directly.In that case try to use a css class in the addrotator(if possible).

[gep13]

Hello,

I suspect that the issue that you are having is that the URL to the images is not valid. I don't think the ~ will resolve properly (i.e. to the root path) when used within the AdRotator. Try using the full URL to each of the images.

Gary