Cannot Integrate Microsoft Advertising sdk in windows phone 8 - windows-phone-8

Question

I am not able to integrate the adcontrol in my windows phone 8 app.
In windows phone 8, the microsoft advertising sdk is already provided in the reference and hence have not downloaded the same.
Below is the code snippet I have used:
// Constructor
public MainPage()
{
InitializeComponent();
// ApplicationID = "test_client", AdUnitID = "Image480_80",
AdControl adControl = new AdControl("test_client", // ApplicationID
"Image480_80", // AdUnitID
true); // isAutoRefreshEnabled
// Make the AdControl size large enough that it can contain the image
adControl.Width = 480;
adControl.Height = 80;
Grid grid = (Grid)this.LayoutRoot.Children[1];
grid.Children.Add(adControl);
}
I have also added various capabilities as mentioned in this link:
Windows phone ads not working
But still I am having no luck...At one place I read you need to have internet connection in order for adcontrol to be visible. Is it true?.
Anyways require help on the same.
Thanks In Advance!!!...

Answer 1

Solution:
Issue that I have found in your question is of capabilities, Keep one thing in mind that there is a change in capabilities from windows phone-7 to windows phone-8.
Capabilities that you have added are according to windows phone-7(as you mentioned from link).
You can find required capabilities at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/advertising-mobile-windows-phone-manifest-capabilities(v=msads.20).aspx
Sample:
public MainPage()
{
InitializeComponent();
AdControl adCntrl = new AdControl();
adCntrl.Height = 80;
adCntrl.Width = 480;
adCntrl.ApplicationId = "test_client";
adCntrl.AdUnitId = "Image480_80";
ContentPanel.Children.Add(adCntrl);
}
with Capabilities:
<Capabilities>
<Capability Name="ID_CAP_IDENTITY_USER"/>
<Capability Name="ID_CAP_MEDIALIB_PHOTO"/>
<Capability Name="ID_CAP_NETWORKING"/>
<Capability Name="ID_CAP_PHONEDIALER"/>
<Capability Name="ID_CAP_WEBBROWSERCOMPONENT"/>
<Capability Name="ID_CAP_MEDIALIB_AUDIO"/>
<Capability Name="ID_CAP_MEDIALIB_PLAYBACK"/>
<Capability Name="ID_CAP_SENSORS"/>
</Capabilities>

Answer 2

Assuming that you did all the rest of the requirement stuff correctly and downloaded the Microsoft Ads SDK and added it in to the reference
Top of the main page
using Microsoft.Advertising.Mobile.UI;
In MainPage class initialize these
Grid adGrid = new Grid();
StackPanel adStackPanel = new StackPanel();
AdControl adControl = new AdControl("test_client", "Image480_80", true);
In Constructor do this
adControl.Width = 480;
adControl.Height = 80;
adStackPanel.Children.Insert(0, adControl);
adGrid.Children.Insert(0, adStackPanel);
adGrid.HorizontalAlignment = HorizontalAlignment.Right;
adGrid.VerticalAlignment = VerticalAlignment.Bottom;
this.DrawingSurfaceBackground.Children.Insert(0, adGrid);
//Optional
adControl.ErrorOccurred += adControl_ErrorOccurred;
void adControl_ErrorOccurred(object sender, Microsoft.Advertising.AdErrorEventArgs e)
{
try
{
AdControl ad = (AdControl)sender;
Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(() =>
{
// MessageBox.Show(e.Error.ToString());
Debug.WriteLine(
"error in ad control '" + ad.Name + "': " + e.Error.Message);
Debug.WriteLine("ad control '" + ad.Name + "' visibility = " + ad.Visibility);
});
}
catch (Exception evnt)
{
Debug.WriteLine("oh no! " + evnt.Message);
}
}