RssFeed - a server control to display rss feeds

The other night I gave a talk to my local VB User Group about blogging and some of the technologies that have sprung up to support it such as Rss, Opml, Aggregators and Blogging apps (such as .Text). I also mentioned how it is amazing that there are so many free (many with full source code) tools that you can grab to quickly implement a blogging solution. One of the tools that I forgot to mention was the rssFeed control which was the brainchild of Scott Mitchell and now lives in its own GotDotNet workspace.

I used this control tonight to add the blogs.regexadvice.com community feed to the home page of RegexLib.com. It was as simple as doing this:

myRssFeed.DataSource = @"http://blogs.regexadvice.com/MainFeed.aspx" ;
myRssFeed.DataBind() ;

...and configuring an ASP.NET templated control. There's some excellent examples here:
    http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/102903-1.aspx

This is great because it's a dead simple way to add current, topical content to a site with a minimal amount of effort :-)