Monetizing win phone 8 app with Microsoft pubCenter

Ok, there are many online tutorial out there if you google, and they will guide you step by step from installing the Microsoft advertising SDK for win phone 8, register account at pubcenter… until getting the ads display on your app. For example, like this one: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/advertising-mobile-windows-phone-8-adcontrol-walkthrough-api(v=msads.20).aspx However, I followed this tutorial but ads is not showing in my app. Something wrong. The debug output shows an exception message:

An exception of type 'Microsoft.Advertising.Shared.AdException' occurred in Microsoft.Advertising.Mobile.DLL and wasn't handled before a managed/native boundary

1	An exception of type 'Microsoft.Advertising.Shared.AdException' occurred in Microsoft.Advertising.Mobile.DLL and wasn't handled before a managed/native boundary

Thanks to Chia Shaw Chyn that highlighted it could be a missing capabilities issue. So i hook up a function onto this adControl object to track down the detail when error occurred.

...
adControl.ErrorOccurred += AdUnit_ErrorOccurred;
}

void AdUnit_ErrorOccurred(object sender, Microsoft.Advertising.AdErrorEventArgs e)
{
    System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("ad error "+e.Error.Message.ToString()); 
}

...

adControl.ErrorOccurred += AdUnit_ErrorOccurred;

}

void AdUnit_ErrorOccurred(object sender, Microsoft.Advertising.AdErrorEventArgs e)

{

System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("ad error "+e.Error.Message.ToString());

}

Ok… now it output debug msg like:

ad error Required capabilities are missing from manifest (WMAppManifest.xml): ID_CAP_IDENTITY_DEVICE,ID_CAP_MEDIALIB.

1	ad error Required capabilities are missing from manifest (WMAppManifest.xml): ID_CAP_IDENTITY_DEVICE,ID_CAP_MEDIALIB.

To add missing capabilities, Goto Solution->project->properties->WMAppManifest.xml->Capabilities (tab), make sure you have the following ticks:

ID_CAP_IDENTITY_DEVICE
ID_CAP_IDENTITY_USER
ID_CAP_MEDIALIB_AUDIO
ID_CAP_MEDIALIB_PHOTO
ID_CAP_MEDIALIB_PLAYBACK
ID_CAP_NETWORKING
ID_CAP_PHONEDIALER
ID_CAP_WEBBROWSERCOMPONENT

BOLD: are the one that the tutorial missed and is important to make sure they are ticked. For you who are interested, the complete code for my MainPage.xaml.cs is as below:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Navigation;
using Microsoft.Phone.Controls;
using Microsoft.Phone.Shell;
using wp_ads.Resources;
using Microsoft.Advertising.Mobile.UI;

namespace wp_ads
{
    public partial class MainPage : PhoneApplicationPage
    {
        private const string APPLICATION_ID = "test_client";
        private const string AD_UNIT_ID = "Image480_80";
        AdControl adControl;
        Grid grid;

        public MainPage()
        {
            InitializeComponent();

            grid = (Grid)this.LayoutRoot.Children[1];
            adControl = new AdControl(APPLICATION_ID, AD_UNIT_ID, true);
            adControl.Width = 480;
            adControl.Height = 80;
            adControl.ErrorOccurred += AdUnit_ErrorOccurred;

            grid.Children.Add(adControl);
        }

        void AdUnit_ErrorOccurred(object sender, Microsoft.Advertising.AdErrorEventArgs e)
        {
            System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("ad error "+e.Error.Message.ToString()); 
        }

    }
}

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Net;

using System.Windows;

using System.Windows.Controls;

using System.Windows.Navigation;

using Microsoft.Phone.Controls;

using Microsoft.Phone.Shell;

using wp_ads.Resources;

using Microsoft.Advertising.Mobile.UI;

namespace wp_ads

{

public partial class MainPage : PhoneApplicationPage

{

private const string APPLICATION_ID = "test_client";

private const string AD_UNIT_ID = "Image480_80";

AdControl adControl;

Grid grid;

public MainPage()

{

InitializeComponent();

grid = (Grid)this.LayoutRoot.Children[1];

adControl = new AdControl(APPLICATION_ID, AD_UNIT_ID, true);

adControl.Width = 480;

adControl.Height = 80;

adControl.ErrorOccurred += AdUnit_ErrorOccurred;

grid.Children.Add(adControl);

}

void AdUnit_ErrorOccurred(object sender, Microsoft.Advertising.AdErrorEventArgs e)

{

System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("ad error "+e.Error.Message.ToString());

}

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