Read RSS FEED data

Let's say there is a blog spot as http://xxxxxx.blogspot.com then RSS feed data would be available at http://xxxxx.blogspot.com/rss.xml. So this is the source data for us to work with.

Now start with code part:

1. First lets add DataGrid to our web page, with one template column as shown below

<asp:DataGrid runat="server" ID="myPosts" AutoGenerateColumns="False">

<asp:TemplateColumn HeaderText="My Posts">

<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "title") %>

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</ItemTemplate>

</asp:TemplateColumn>

</Columns>

</asp:DataGrid>

2. In our page load, lets declare XMLTextReader object & this will take RSS FEED URL. In this example I am using my blogspot url

XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader("http://bgsuryablog.blogspot.com/rss.xml");

3. We will declare Dataset

DataSet ds = new DataSet();

4. To read XML data & read into DS lets use below code

ds.ReadXml(reader);

5. As we have dataset object filled up with RSS feed data. Lets assign Dataset to datagrid as below

myPosts.DataSource = ds;

myPosts.DataBind();

6. Dataset object would contain properties in the form of Link & Title, which we have used in our .aspx code i.e. step1