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.NET RSS Aggregators

Well, it's my first blog post ever.  I plan on getting an "about me" page up in a few days but I felt like jumping in head first tonight. 

Don Box mentioned an article on MSDN about creating your own RSS aggregator.  A couple people mentioned they would like to see an increase in .NET based aggregators.  I'm not sure if this article is a good place to start.  When I was working on my own aggregator, I found myself spending all my time writing code for parsing the XML, serializeing to disk, and keeping track of read/unread messages.  This article covers a bit of that information but the code for the application is not very modular and would be hard to implement in your own application.

I think a good RSS library for .NET could really increase it's use in aggregators.  Hopefully there will be a library releleased here.  You can actually "borrow" the dll from his Beaver aggregator (nice .NET based aggregator even though it's v0.4.3) and reference it in your own applications.  But it would be nice to have some samples and support.

Anyone else know of a good RSS library for .NET? 

Posted: Mar 03 2003, 01:31 AM by mihalik | with 4 comment(s)
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TrackBack said:

RSSLibrary : Dustin Mihalik's Blog
# March 3, 2003 2:31 AM

TrackBack said:

More RSS Framework stuff : David Stone's Blog
# March 3, 2003 2:31 AM

Cort said:

I am reading your message via Syndirella, which can be found at:
http://yole.ru/projects/syndirella/
# March 3, 2003 7:42 AM

David Peckham said:

My own Wildgrape NewsDesk runs on .NET 1.0 and 1.1. It satisfies all of the functional requirements listed in the MSDN article, and much more.

How about seamless XML-RPC integration with 4,500 news and weblog sources at NewsIsFree?

Dave
# March 12, 2003 1:20 AM
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