Similar to adrotator, but to generate text?

[John Buchmann]

On my site, i want a tiny section to display
quotes/testimonials from our customers. I want the text
to be randomly chosen from a file and then displayed
whenever a page loads.

I thought the Adrotator would work if i simply didn't
specify an image, and just used the AlternateText. The
text shows up, but it's inside an icon of a broken image.

Is there a .net control (built-into .NET) that can do
this?

If not, can you give any tips on how this is done by hand?

Thanks so much!
John

 

[Hermit Dave]

well you should have controls for that but you could write one without much
problems.
say you have xml file with say quotes.

load up the xml file in a dataset.
get the rowcount
use Randon.Next to generate a random between 0 and the RowCount -1
read the row and dispay its data.
optimise as needed... store data in cache or use singleton etc.

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Regards,

Hermit Dave
(http://hdave.blogspot.com)

 

[John Buchmann]

Thanks Dave for the info. I hate working w/ XML, but in
this case it was easy. And it worked like a charm.
Thanks again!

John

 

[Hermit Dave]

Thanks mate... glad that it worked

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Regards,

Hermit Dave
(http://hdave.blogspot.com)