(Note: the compiled assembly was compiled using Visual Studio .NET 2003, and is therefore targetted for the .NET Framework Version 1.1. If you need to use RssFeed for .NET Framework 1.0, you will need to download the source code and compile it through Visual Studio .NET 2002.)
If you download the source code, before using RssFeed in an ASP.NET web application you'll need to compile the source
code. If you have Visual Studio .NET, this task is simple - simply double-click the skmRss.csproj file in
the downloaded code files, which will open Visual Studio .NET. Next, go to the Build menu and choose Build Solution.
That's it! This will create the compiled assembly - skmRss.dll. (If you are going to be using
RssFeed in an ASP.NET Web application on a Web server running the .NET Framework Version 1.1, you can just download
the pre-compiled assembly instead, if you want to skip the step of compilation yourself...)
I have not tested RssFeed with Visual Studio 2005 / ASP.NET 2.0, but others have written to let me know that they have gotten it to work without any changes...
Oct. 25, 2005 (version 1.9.3): ----------------------------- - Added capability for specifying Credentials in RssFeed. Enables page developers to display RSS feeds that are protected via authentication schemes such as Basic, Digest, NTML, and so on. For more information on making authenticated HTTP web requests see http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/102605-1.aspx Oct. 13, 2005 (version 1.9.2): ----------------------------- - When creating version 1.9, I factored out the RSS slurping piece to the RssEngine. This resulted in accidentally removing the CacheDuration support. I have added this back in in the RssFeed.cs class's CreateControlHierarchy() method. (Thanks to David M. for catching this bug.) Oct. 4, 2005 (version 1.9.1): ----------------------------- - Fixes MaxItems bug. See the first comment at http://scottonwriting.net/sowblog/posts/4478.aspx Sept. 27, 2005 (version 1.9): ----------------------------- (The jump in version numbers is because I am going to eventually release version 2.0, which will include ATOM support... This will be the last version before the 2.0 release...) - Moved RSS feed retrieval code/logic to separate namespace and classes (see skmRss.Engine namespace). This will allow developers to use RssFeed to grab RSS and RDF content without needing to use the associated ASP.NET Web control to display the results. - Added an RssEnclosure class and associated property to the RssItem class. Ergo, RssFeed can now be used to display information about podcast feeds. This included the addition of two new properties to the RssFeed control: ShowEnclosure and EnclosureLinkText. Oct. 1, 2004 (version 1.5.1735.17373): -------------------------------------- - Fixed a bug on parsingentries that used time zones other than GMT. Essentially used code from the RssBandit project that parses dates according to the RFC 822 specs (credit to Dare Obasanjo for the code). Mar. 9th, 2004 (version 1.5): ------------------------------ - Added Proxy property so RssFeed could be used to request external RssFeeds on sites that use a Proxy. - Added Timeout property, specifying how many milliseconds RssFeed should wait when accessing an external URL. Feb. 12th, 2004 (version 1.4): ------------------------------ - Added ItemIndex property to RssFeedItem class Feb. 5th, 2004 (version 1.3): ----------------------------- - Converted XmlDocument usage to XPathDocument Jan. 8th, 2004: --------------- RssFeed 1.2 - Added capability for title/link to content to be automatically encorporated - Added template support - Added XML comments to C# source code - documentation available online at: http://scottonwriting.net/sowBlog/CodeProjectFiles/RssFeedDocs/skmRss.html - Added some live demos examples at: http://scottonwriting.net/demos/RssFeedDemos.aspx Dec. 13, 2003: -------------- RssFeed 1.1 - Added Target property - Added support for RDF (RSS 1.0) syndication feeds Oct. 25, 2003: -------------- RssFeed 1.0 (This control was created by Scott Mitchell in October 2003. http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/ScottMitchell.shtml)