Accessing RSS Feeds

I need to get data from this RSS feed:http://feeds.feedburner.com/WikinewsLatestNews

to create a desktop ticker. Any suggestions on where to start accessing the feed?

[296 byte] By [l33t] at [2007-12-28]

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# 1

I would start by looking at the RSS 2.0 specification here: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss . It describes the RSS format.

You can access a stream that contains the RSS file using the following code:

WebRequest.Create("http://feeds.feedburner.com/WikinewsLatestNews").Response().GetResponseStream()

You can then pass this stream off to the XMLTextReader class and use it to read in and process the RSS file.

Hope this helps.

-Scott Wisniewski

ScottWisniewski-MSFT at 2007-9-4 >

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# 2

There is this vb learning resource that was released as part of Whidbey (I think). It walks you through how to build an RSS Feed Reader (using videos and projects). This may be of help -

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vb/learning/

ShyamN at 2007-9-4 >

# 3

I recently released a syndication framework written using Microsoft .NET 2.0 on CodePlex that you might find useful for consuming/generating syndication feeds. The project is under a permissive license and the full source code is available as well. It provides implementations of both the RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 specifications.

You can download the framework at http://www.codeplex.com/argotic.

BrianKuhn at 2007-9-4 >

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