Changing Pictures On Page

[brian]

I am new to .net technology. I have a home page built
for my company using asp.net. On the bottom of the home
page I want to embed a "dilbert comic strip" which is gif
format. I have the strips in the directory
c:/dilbert/"then by year for sub directories". I would
like to have the page change the picture randomly like
every 3 hours or so. Can this be done and if so how or
where could I find some good documentation on the proper
procedure or class to use.

Thanks in advance.

[Dino Chiesa [MSFT]]

There is an AdRotator control, but it changes with every page, not every
three hours.

here's the reference info:
[url]http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vbcon/html/vbconAdRotatorWebControl.asp[/url]

here's a working sample from the quickstart
[url]http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/aspplus/samples/webforms/ctrlref/webctrl/adrotator/doc_adrot.aspx[/url]


You could build your own "user control" based on the image control. When
the page loads, your user control can check the time of day and then select
a gif based on that.

image control example:
[url]http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/aspplus/samples/webforms/ctrlref/webctrl/image/doc_image.aspx[/url]

-Dino


"brian" <brians@lbrspec.com> wrote in message
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> I am new to .net technology. I have a home page built
> for my company using asp.net. On the bottom of the home
> page I want to embed a "dilbert comic strip" which is gif
> format. I have the strips in the directory
> c:/dilbert/"then by year for sub directories". I would
> like to have the page change the picture randomly like
> every 3 hours or so. Can this be done and if so how or
> where could I find some good documentation on the proper
> procedure or class to use.
>
> Thanks in advance.

[Jurjen]

Brian,

One way of accomplishing this is :

Use 'CurrentDilbert.gif' on your page, then schedule a simple app to
randomly copy a file from c:/dilbert to CurrentDilbert.gif

Hope this helps.

Jurjen de Groot
G.I.T.S., Netherlands



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