ipsearchlight (www.ipsearchlight.com) for asp.net gives you real-time feedback on the geographic location of
website visitors by their ip address alone. the technology is completely unintrusive, yet can often track a person's location to a few miles radius on the planet.
some potential uses:
- localization of
website language, content and currency.
- targeted advertising.
- preventing credit
card fraud.
- geographically profiling
email recipients.
- geographic profiling of e-commerce purchasing behavior.
ipsearchlight for asp.net benefits from 1 click integration with the
microsoft visual studio 2002/2003 toolbox. it is packaged as a web control and can be implemented with minimal code overhead.
quickstart:
ipsearchlight is most easily installed by using the installer executable, which can be downloaded from www.ipsearchlight.com.
choose the
directory you wish to install to (the given
directory is recommended) and the installer will begin to extract and copy the database and other files:
the installer will then automatically install ipsearchlight to the
microsoft visual studio toolbox.
to use ipsearchlight, drag the webcontrol onto your aspx page from the toolbox.
the component's properties are visible in the properties dialog window. the component will automatically detect each
website visitor's location and ip address. properties including longitude, latitude, state, country and postal (zip) code are then programatically accessible (see the examples section for more information).