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Published on 7/17/2012
Categories: Web Analytics
Internal campaigns with Google Analytics and .NET AdRotator
An internal campaign banner is one that points to the same site it is contained in, for example you may advertise for one of your products while the user is looking at another one.
For banners hosted in external sites the best way to collect statistics is to use UTM (Urchen Tracking Module) query parameters: Google Analytics can automatically collect and group this type of data.
On the other side, the UTM approach is not good for internal campaigns, because when mixed with external ones, it compromises the analysis: try to imagine what happens if a user clicks on an external banner, then in an internal one and finally she makes a conversion. Which is the cause and which is the effect?

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Published on 1/19/2012
Categories: Web Design
A infographic sample with ASP.NET

Let's try to create a simple infographic starting from an XML file containing data about the carbon dioxide emissions in Europe.

To position the data on a map, we have to add the latitude and longitude fields for each european country (we have not to be precise).

To use the data we have to load them into an XML data source, using the System.Xml.XmlDataSource object, but the problem is that the object wants the record fields specified as node attributes.

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Published on 12/24/2011
Categories: Web & Apps
How to clear the SqlDataSource cache

The SqlDataSource.EnableCaching property allows to save the results of a specific database query.
When the caching is activated, if you reset EnableCaching to false, the query result is not retrieved from the cache anymore but it's re-executed every time.
But surprisingly, if you reset EnableCaching to true again, the data is retrieved from the old cache.

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