How to create Hit Counter Usercontrol in ASP.NET

Introduction

In this codesnippet, i will show you, How to create Hit Counter UserControl in ASP.NET.The hit counter is useful, when you are develop a web page, and then you have to monitor how many visitors visiting your page.

Implementation

Create a usercontrol using visual studio, and then add a label control to display count as like following,

<asp:Label ID="lblCounter" runat="server"></asp:Label>

Next ,add server side code for capture the visitor count.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Data;

public partial class WebUserControl : System.Web.UI.UserControl
{protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {this.countMe();

        DataSet tmpDs = new DataSet();
        tmpDs.ReadXml(Server.MapPath("~/counter.xml"));
        lblCounter.Text = tmpDs.Tables[0].Rows[0]["hits"].ToString();
    }private void countMe()
    {

        DataSet tmpDs = new DataSet();
        tmpDs.ReadXml(Server.MapPath("~/counter.xml"));int hits = Int32.Parse(tmpDs.Tables[0].Rows[0]["hits"].ToString());

        hits += 1;

        tmpDs.Tables[0].Rows[0]["hits"] = hits.ToString();

        tmpDs.WriteXml(Server.MapPath("~/counter.xml"));

    }
}

The important point,here you have to place xml file named counter.xml in your web server location.The XML file stricture will be following,

<counter><count><hits>0</hits></count></counter>

 That's all for implementation of the hit counter.

How to use

Just drag and drop the this user control, where you want to capture the visitors count.

Conclusion

In this codesnippet, i had demonstrated to you, How to create Hit Counter UserControl in ASP.NET.