Ad Control / monetization
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I am working on this app at home that I hope to sell as a nagware, i.e. completely free but display Ads for 10 seconds every time you save your work until the time you pay for it. Now.. I have no idea how to display Ads in a WPF app. I remember they had a whole section on it when I was doing Silverlight on the phone. But in WPF documentation there is nothing. Any link / blog / API I should check? any other alternative idea? After some googling I fear it might not be possible to display ads in WPF app (for legal / privacy reasons?) How will one implement a nagware then? I'd like user to have full power.. Oh well.. I might just have a 10 seconds count down (with no adds)... I guess that's a start...
A new .NET Serializer All in one Menu-Ribbon Bar Taking over the world since 1371!
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I am working on this app at home that I hope to sell as a nagware, i.e. completely free but display Ads for 10 seconds every time you save your work until the time you pay for it. Now.. I have no idea how to display Ads in a WPF app. I remember they had a whole section on it when I was doing Silverlight on the phone. But in WPF documentation there is nothing. Any link / blog / API I should check? any other alternative idea? After some googling I fear it might not be possible to display ads in WPF app (for legal / privacy reasons?) How will one implement a nagware then? I'd like user to have full power.. Oh well.. I might just have a 10 seconds count down (with no adds)... I guess that's a start...
A new .NET Serializer All in one Menu-Ribbon Bar Taking over the world since 1371!
The ads would come from an external web source presumably so you would just need to display a browser control in your nag screen and serve your ad there.
This space for rent
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The ads would come from an external web source presumably so you would just need to display a browser control in your nag screen and serve your ad there.
This space for rent
yeah.., all advertising thing I found seems to come from a website... I haven't even started on the website yet and the app is not even alpha (yet).. mmm.. I guess it's too early to do anything about it... :(
A new .NET Serializer All in one Menu-Ribbon Bar Taking over the world since 1371!
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I am working on this app at home that I hope to sell as a nagware, i.e. completely free but display Ads for 10 seconds every time you save your work until the time you pay for it. Now.. I have no idea how to display Ads in a WPF app. I remember they had a whole section on it when I was doing Silverlight on the phone. But in WPF documentation there is nothing. Any link / blog / API I should check? any other alternative idea? After some googling I fear it might not be possible to display ads in WPF app (for legal / privacy reasons?) How will one implement a nagware then? I'd like user to have full power.. Oh well.. I might just have a 10 seconds count down (with no adds)... I guess that's a start...
A new .NET Serializer All in one Menu-Ribbon Bar Taking over the world since 1371!
You should conside UWP and the Microsoft Store, and a their "monetizing". You give up 30% on "games" and 10% on the rest. Reasonable "management" fees IMO. [Microsoft Ad Monetization platform](https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ad-monetization-platform)
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then". ― Blaise Pascal
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You should conside UWP and the Microsoft Store, and a their "monetizing". You give up 30% on "games" and 10% on the rest. Reasonable "management" fees IMO. [Microsoft Ad Monetization platform](https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ad-monetization-platform)
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then". ― Blaise Pascal
It's a good idea, but I checked many times and UWP is unfortunately a no no! :( Why? It's a document application! It needs to open file on your filesystem wherever they are. When it restart it automatically open previous document (like Visual Studio) and some important file can also be bookmarked for automatic usage of image resources. All of that is night impossible with all the restriction to file system access that UWP apps suffer... :(( I checked many times before :(( However you got a point. I think one can ship normal Desktop app in the store and have some hybrid UI (both WPF and UWP) so I might have a look. Plus at this stage I have lot of WPF (not only XAML, but also low level custom Visual...) not sure how well it would port to UWP...
A new .NET Serializer All in one Menu-Ribbon Bar Taking over the world since 1371!
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It's a good idea, but I checked many times and UWP is unfortunately a no no! :( Why? It's a document application! It needs to open file on your filesystem wherever they are. When it restart it automatically open previous document (like Visual Studio) and some important file can also be bookmarked for automatic usage of image resources. All of that is night impossible with all the restriction to file system access that UWP apps suffer... :(( I checked many times before :(( However you got a point. I think one can ship normal Desktop app in the store and have some hybrid UI (both WPF and UWP) so I might have a look. Plus at this stage I have lot of WPF (not only XAML, but also low level custom Visual...) not sure how well it would port to UWP...
A new .NET Serializer All in one Menu-Ribbon Bar Taking over the world since 1371!
By "default", VS uses it's own "project folders". If you expect to open "non-app" files on "start-up", you will need to "stage" this file locally after closing it on last use (your "MRU" list). This needs to be done to maintain the security of the platform, and is reasonable if the user sticks with the "tool" as intended.
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then". ― Blaise Pascal