Help with RSS

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Hi all I want to know how it would be possible to set up a rss feed on a site, and then get the information added to the new site to use on my site. For instance a new news topic.I want to build something that can take the detail of the new news post and display is in a more proper way in my site. Such as date published, topic, description and news detail of the new post in some sort of a Grid view... Thanks in advance,

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Asp.net 3.5 provides classes like "SyndicationFeed", "SyndicationItem", etc.. under namespace "System.ServiceModel.Syndication" which can be used to generate & read RSS Feed . For setting up a RSS feed for a particular site, u need to write code to generate RSS Feed. You can follow, given link for same: http://www.geekpedia.com/tutorial157_Create-an-RSS-feed-using-ASP.NET-2.0.html Similary, The feed generated & published from one site, can be consumed by other site by reading the RSS feed. Example code for reading RSS Feeds: using (XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(_sourceURL) { SyndicationFeedFormatter formatter = null; Atom10FeedFormatter atom = new Atom10FeedFormatter(); Rss20FeedFormatter rss = new Rss20FeedFormatter(); SyndicationFeed feed; // Determine the format of the feed if (reader.ReadState == ReadState.Initial) { reader.MoveToContent(); } if (atom.CanRead(reader)) { formatter = atom; } if (rss.CanRead(reader)) { formatter = rss; } if (formatter == null) { //return "The feed format is not supported"; } formatter.ReadFrom(reader); feed = formatter.Feed; }

Help with RSS

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