10/5/08

Polls And Voting Controls

Everybody likes to have the freedom to express their opinion. Online polls can be a fun reason for users to regularly return to your Web site. Online polls can also provide valuable feedback about the way your users think and feel. This information can then be used to mold your site into something they like even better. Creating a basic voting control isn’t difficult, but creating a truly flexible and reusable control with a solid design takes more time than most developers have available. So save your valuable time and use one of these fine controls instead.


NetPolls from Votations.com is a flexible voting control that asks only that you register with their Web site. You can configure an unlimited number of questions in the form of radio buttons, checkboxes, and/or dropdown lists. It sports a fully customizable layout, and can be database driven. It’s easy to get started with the control, and design time support is superb. The n-tier architecture is completely documented online.

http://www.votations.com/netpolls/


Web wizard Scott Mitchell created a Content Rater control that will gather valuable feedback from users and faithfully store this information in a SQL Server database. The free C# source code is explained in detail, so you can easily extend this user control in case its already impressive functionality isn’t enough to satisfy your requirements. You might start by converting it to a custom control so it will be more easily reusable across projects.

http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/042104-1.aspx




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