Generic Graphical Voting Poll Web Application

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This generic voting poll web application tutorial was brought to you by
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and memorabilia buttons)

What is a voting poll web application?

A voting pollweb application is a web page that

you can add to your website to allow users to

vote on stuff, chat about the poll’s candidates

and support their preferred choice in the voting poll.

Why add a voting poll to my website?

A voting poll like this will let you take statistics on

user choices, provide entertainment for your users

and even assist you in marketing products on your

website.

How to configure this voting poll for my own
elections on my website?

Simply edit vote.xml to hold information about your

voting poll:

<candidates>
  <polltitle>2004 Presidential Campaign Voting Poll</polltitle>
  <pollinstructions>Click on the candidate that you believe should be the next president of the United States of America.</pollinstructions>
  <candidate>

name of a chatroom for candidate should

anyone decide to chat about this candidate.

Can be any IRC channel name that you can

think of without the '#' :

<chatroomname>SBT10027BUSH</chatroomname>

Picture of the candidate:

<image>SBT10027BUSH.jpg</image>

URL that the user may visit when they vote for this candidate:

<url>http://www.pcbutton.com/</url>

Call the candidate something:

<candidatetitle>George W Bush</candidatetitle>

Store the IP address of each vote to prevent duplicate votes:

    <votes>
      <vote>192.168.0.77</vote>
      <vote>192.168.0.71</vote>
    </votes>
  </candidate>
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Note: Be sure to configure IIS to not allow users to
browse to vote.xml if you do not want it to be publicly available.

And you will need to grant ASP.NET write access to vote.xml:

1. Right-click vote.xml in explorer

2. Click "properties"

3. Click the "security" tab

4. Click "add" and add the ASPNET user

5. Highlight the ASPNET account

6. Check the "write" box in the "allow" column

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for(iAllVotes = 0;iAllVotes < pAllVotes.Count;iAllVotes++)
{
      if(pAllVotes[iAllVotes].InnerText == strVoterId)
      {
            bChad = true;
      }
}
if(!bChad)
{
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