ASP.NET RSS Toolkit
3/26/2006 Update (version 1.0.0.1)
Added MaxItems property to RssDataSource to limit the number of items
returned.
Added automatic generation of <link> tags from RssHyperLink control, to light
up the RSS toolbar icon in IE7. For more information please see
http://blogs.msdn.com/rssteam/articles/PublishersGuide.aspx
Added protected Context property (of type HttpContext) to RssHttpHandlerBase
class, to allow access to the HTTP request while generating a feed.
Added generation of LoadChannel(string url) method in RssCodeGenerator so
that one strongly typed channel class can be used to consume different channels.
Fixed problem expanding app relative2(~/…) links containing query string when
generating RSS feeds.
Summary
The RSS toolkit includes support for consuming as well as publishing RSS feeds in
ASP.NET applications. Features include:
RSS Data Source control to consume feeds in ASP.NET applications
o Works with ASP.NET data bound controls
o Implements schema to generate columns at design time
o Supports auto-generation of columns at runtime (via
ICustomTypeDescriptor implementation)
Caching of downloaded feeds both in-memory and on-disk (persisted across
process restarts)
Generation of strongly typed classes for RSS feeds (including strongly typed
channel, items, image, handler) based on a RSS URL (the toolkit recognizes RSS
and RDF feeds) or a file containing RSS definition. Allows programmatically
download (and create) RSS channels using strongly-typed classes. The toolkit
includes:
o Stand-alone command line RSS compiler
o Build provider for .rssdl file (containing the list of feed URLs)
o Build provider for .rss file (containing RSS XML)
Support for generation of RSS feeds in ASP.NET application including:
o RSS HTTP handler (strongly typed HTTP handlers are generated
automatically by the build providers) to generate the feed.
o RSS Hyper Link control (that can point to RSS HTTP handler) to create
RSS links
o Optional secure encoding of user name into query string to allow
generation of personalized feeds
Set of classes for programmatic consumption and generation of RSS feed in a
late-bound way, without using strongly types generated classes
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