Building RSS Readers with ASP.NET Whidbey

Monday, December 22, 2003

Kent showed a simple RSS reader that can be built with the ASP.NET Whidbey alpha today. Note that in the alpha the XmlDataSource can only databind to local XML files stored on the file-system. With the beta we've added support for the XmlDataSource to also be able to bind to remote XML documents available over a network. This will enable you to build an RSS reader populated off of remote RSS feeds (like http://weblogs.asp.net/MainFeed.aspx).

Should make building custom reader views easy and fun....

7 Comments

Does the syntax he uses in that sample also quote html-tags like < and >?

Christian - Saturday, December 27, 2003 7:58:00 PM

Hi Christian,

The syntax he shows doesn't -- although you can easily suround the databound expression calls with a Server.HtmlEncode() method -- which would then automatically html encode tags like < and >.

Hope this helps,

Scott

scottgu@microsoft.com - Monday, December 29, 2003 2:04:00 AM

This article came in very handy! Thanks for the great work.

Johnnie Poole - Sunday, March 7, 2004 3:20:00 PM

Which versions of RSS?

Mike Schinkel - Monday, March 15, 2004 6:42:00 AM

Thats not a perfect solution but almost the same idea for the .net framework 1.0 and 1.1 !!! It was developed in july 2002 ;-) I use it a lot on my website.

Laurent Kemp&#233; - Monday, May 3, 2004 1:12:00 PM

With Whidbey? Where did you get it?

Greg - Wednesday, May 26, 2004 4:12:00 PM

hi scott

I'm EhsanMx Persian Programmers -- Asp.net & J2ee.

i worked on Rss Readers with J2EE in 2 month ago and i found some ways to grow RssRdrs 4 J2ee users.do you any idea about that.

i hope you always be goooooood.;)

Tnx.

EhsanMx - Thursday, May 27, 2004 12:06:00 PM

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