The banner problem

vbboyd · March 23rd, 2013, 04:23 PM

I am working through the example on page 288-9 and I can't seem to make the banner render in design view. I have tried doing the exercise three times now, and for some strange reason I keep missing something. Here is the HTML markup

Code:

 Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Banner.ascx.cs" Inherits="Controls_Banner" %>
<asp:Panel ID="VerticalPanel" runat="server">
    <a href="http://p2p.wrox.com"
    target="_blank" <asp:Image ID="Image1" runat="server" ImageUrl="~/Images/Banner120x240.gif" />
        </a>
</asp:Panel>

Does anyone know what is happening here?

vbboyd · March 23rd, 2013, 04:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vbboyd

I am working through the example on page 288-9 and I can't seem to make the banner render in design view. I have tried doing the exercise three times now, and for some strange reason I keep missing something. Here is the HTML markup

Code:

 Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Banner.ascx.cs" Inherits="Controls_Banner" %>
<asp:Panel ID="VerticalPanel" runat="server">
    <a href="http://p2p.wrox.com"
    target="_blank" <asp:Image ID="Image1" runat="server" ImageUrl="~/Images/Banner120x240.gif" />
        </a>
</asp:Panel>

Does anyone know what is happening here?

I think that perhaps maybe the .gif file that I downloaded from the internet has gotten corrupted somehow, I will try to repair it using photshop or I will try to put it in a different format via photoshop like maybe a .png or .jpeg file.

vbboyd · March 23rd, 2013, 04:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vbboyd

I think that perhaps maybe the .gif file that I downloaded from the internet has gotten corrupted somehow, I will try to repair it using photshop or I will try to put it in a different format via photoshop like maybe a .png or .jpeg file.

Okay so I tried to repair and optimize the .gif banner files in photoshop and that didn't work. So I then tried to download those .gif files again from wrox website and that still didn't fix the problem. I guess the next step is to go reset the wireless router because some of the downloads when it comes to images maybe getting corrupted by the wireless router configuration.

vbboyd · March 23rd, 2013, 04:44 PM

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Originally Posted by vbboyd

Okay so I tried to repair and optimize the .gif banner files in photoshop and that didn't work. So I then tried to download those .gif files again from wrox website and that still didn't fix the problem. I guess the next step is to go reset the wireless router because some of the downloads when it comes to images maybe getting corrupted by the wireless router configuration.

Okay so I reset the wireless router and I then downloaded the .gif banner resource files from the wrox website and I am still having the same problem. I don't what I is going wrong. The only thing I can figure out is that maybe the files on wrox server might be corrupted. I just don't know. I give up for now. Maybe someone can find me an answer here.

Imar · March 26th, 2013, 11:49 AM

Let me guess: you are using Firefox and you're using a Banner blocking plugin. The book warns for this somewhere; the banner images look like banners and thus the plugin disables them. Disable the plugin (or other banner blocking software you may have running) and it should work.

Cheers,

Imar

vbboyd · March 26th, 2013, 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Imar

Let me guess: you are using Firefox and you're using a Banner blocking plugin. The book warns for this somewhere; the banner images look like banners and thus the plugin disables them. Disable the plugin (or other banner blocking software you may have running) and it should work.

Cheers,

Imar

Yes, you are right. I run the application with Safari and it works just fine. Why didn't I think of that? Something that simple, and I was trying everything else in the world more complicated while going on wild goose chase trying to figure out this problem.