ASP.NET RSS Toolkit

New Post: Sort RSS Posts

rsrobbins — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:21:16 GMT

I need to sort the RSS posts so the pubDates are in descending order for a custom display. It seems like I can do this quite easily using rss.Channel.Items.Sort() but I'll need to write a custom IComparer and I can find few examples of how to do that on the Internet. Has anyone already done this or can you point to some resources for learning how to write custom Comparers?

New Post: IE 8 - Ask to download RssHyperLink.ivn file

winmyan — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:01:56 GMT

I just run the sample program in IE 8. At the following page, when I click Rss link, I am asked to download the RssHyperLink.ivn rather than displaying rss feed in the browser.

http://localhost:xxxxx/RssToolkitSampleWebApplication/RssHyperLink.aspx

It is not an issue in FireFox.

New Comment on "Publishing a feed using ToXML"

tigermain — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:12:07 GMT

This is a great project and I am implementing it in our open source MVC CMS. However I have one issue with this code, for some reason Firefox is displaying the source code with many illegal characters and therefore does not render the xml page, whilst IE seems to be able to read it properly. Any ideas?

Commented Issue: Media RSS Support

bsteinwand — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:21:14 GMT

When I try to create a Media RSS feed the output is slightly flawed. I get <content></content> tags rather than what I should get <media:content> </media:content>

About 'Media RSS', here is a helpful primer: http://www.webmonkey.com/tutorial/Use_Media_RSS

The problem I am experiencing is with the output of my Media RSS, which is essentially a new standard allowing multiple media artifacts (like a video and a song) to exist in one item.

The Media element looks like this: <media:content> </media:content>

The output from this RSS Tool Kit looks like this: <content> </content>

otherwise everything works perfectly! I was able to generate a class, load it up with values, but when I emit the XML I don’t get a <media:content /> I get rather a <content /> which just won't work.

Does anyone know if there is a version that will support output RSS in the full Media RSS standard? Anyone know anything about support for Media RSS in this RSS ToolKit?

I'm attaching a text file with; My RSS template, my ASHX code, and my flawed output. Thanks for any help!

Best Regards,
bsteinwand
Comments: ** Comment from web user: bsteinwand **

Hi Pat,

That would be great. I have heard a few suggested fixes but they were all hacks. I'd love to hear your suggestion on how to work around the problem.

Very much looking forward to that patch being implemented. Seems like the lack of support for namespaces is a pretty big deal.

Ben

Commented Issue: Media RSS Support

PHeonix25 — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:26:48 GMT

I had exactly the same problem, and have submitted a patch.
If you'd like to know what you need to do in the mean-time, just let me know and I can step you through it.
Cheers,
-Pat

Patch Uploaded: #3171

PHeonix25 — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:03:35 GMT

PHeonix25 has uploaded a patch.

Description:
Other half of patch# 3170

Patch Uploaded: #3170

PHeonix25 — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:01:25 GMT

PHeonix25 has uploaded a patch.

Description:
Fixes the Media RSS Support by adding an overloaded ToRssXML function that accepts a namespace.
When this namespace is defined and added to your objects, the namespace declaration will appear at the top of your XML and the items will have the appropriate prefixes.
I have not updated the binary that you use to create the classes because I am working directly with the RSSToolkit and hand coding my classes and objects, but for the record, you will need to create a new ToXML function that calls the new function in the RSSDocumentBase

New Post: RSSToolkit configuration problem after downloading.

iammrkcohen — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:35:20 GMT

I'm having this same problem still. Does anyone have any insight? Is it just a problem with my server?

New Post: Documentation

txarlie — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:25:27 GMT

Hello:

I am looking for documentation about RSSToolkit. I do not see anything in this webpage. Does documentation exist?

I need the documentation in order to see how can I create a XML file from a the RSSs I read. This is because the server crashes sometimes. So, I would like to copy the RSSs read in a local XML in order to access it when the server crashes.

I have everything developed except the XML creation. I am trying to use this code:

NewChannel.Items.Add(OldChannelDS.Channel.Items[i]);

Any help or documentation?

Thanks in advance,

Txarlie

New Post: RSS feed contains Date but not PubDate

jonswaino — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:33:28 GMT

Hi,

I'm linking to an RSS feed which has Date instead of pubDate in its content.
This means that my GridView does not bind but throws an exception *very bad*. Ok, so what is a way round this other than not displaying the Date for any of my Rss feeds just in case it doesn't have the pubDate?

Thankyou,

Jon

New Post: Unable to read attributes on this feed

fagster — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:18:39 GMT

Hello all,

I'd really appreciate some assistance. I have followed the guidelines for extracting the attributes from elements in the rss feed I am working with but still cannot extract them.

An example of the feed is as follows: http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-idea?action=getcompany&count=20&output=rss&owner=exclude&CIK=goog

I have utilised rssdl.exe to create the class to consume the feed. However, the class does not contain strongly typed properties, and thus when I Load in the feed to the object, the attributes are ignored and the bindings of the form #Eval("link.href") fail.

I have tried changing "output=atom" in the feed but this makes no difference.

Can anyone shed any light on what I could try to get this working?

Kind Regards,

Richard F, London

New Post: How do I write .ashx output to xml file for later use?

tbennett — Tue, 12 May 2009 05:46:08 GMT

I have the toolkit installed and working just fine. The output from my .ashx file displays just fine in my browser. Now, instead of sending the content directly to the browser, I need to direct the .ashx output to an xml file for later use. I cannot find an example of how to do this.

Can someone please let me know how to direct the output from the rss toolkit to an xml file for permanent storage?

Thank you in advance.

Reviewed: 2.0.0.0 Release (May 05, 2009)

ngcuongtruc — Tue, 05 May 2009 09:37:55 GMT

Rated 4 Stars (out of 5) - thanks, it's kool

Reviewed: 2.0.0.0 Release (May 05, 2009)

ngcuongtruc — Tue, 05 May 2009 09:37:53 GMT

Rated 4 Stars (out of 5) - thanks, it's kool

New Post: namespace elements missing

bsteinwand — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:32:58 GMT

I'm having the same problem. Did you ever find a solution?

Here is a pretty janky solution that involves intercepting the XML and doing a find-n-replace;

http://www.codeplex.com/ASPNETRSSToolkit/Thread/View.aspx?ThreadId=12047&ANCHOR#Post79270

bsteinwand

New Post: How do i get the complete description of a feed and not just a part of it?

darshana — Fri, 01 May 2009 23:09:55 GMT

Hi Guys,

I am trying to retrieve the description of a feed with the following code:

rss = RssToolkit.Rss.RssDocument.Load(new System.Uri("http://www.bollywood-stars.net/feed/"));
foreach (RssItem item in rss.Channel.Items)
{
list.Add(item.Description);
}

However, it return just a part of the entire description from the main article.

How can I retrieve the entire content of a feed item using RssToolkit? Or is there any workaround to retrieve the complete content?

Thanks in advance for helping out.

Darshana

Created Issue: Media RSS Support

bsteinwand — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:54:57 GMT

New Post: Getting an Error cItem not defined

batraonline — Fri, 01 May 2009 05:28:49 GMT

Can some please help and let me know what I might be doing wrong.

I added reference that created a bin directory with the dll. then I used the following code

Dim

RSS_DS As New RssToolkit.Web.WebControls.RssDataSource()

RSS_DS.Url =

"http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?lang=en&q=%23wa&rpp=100"

Dim RSS_Channel As RssToolkit.Rss.RssChannel

RSS_Channel = RSS_DS.Rss.Channel

For Each cItem In RSS_Channel.Items

Response.Write(cItem.Guid.Text &

" " & cItem.Description & " <br/>")

Commented Issue: PubDateParsed is inefficient

chripede — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:22:50 GMT

PubDateParsed recompiles the rfc2822 regular expression on every call. Compiling regular expressions is very costly and when PubDateParsed is within a loop, there are major performance issues.

A quick fix is to make the regular expression an array of RssXmlHelper.
Comments: ** Comment from web user: chripede **

Patch attached

Commented Issue: Updates Needed to Fix Support for Atom Feeds

voss23 — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:57:21 GMT

Symptoms when consuming Atom feeds:
- <pubDate/> is empty
- <link/> links to the <channel/> URL and not the <item/> URL

Fixes in AtomToRss20.xsl
- LINE 25: <xsl:value-of select="//*[name()='modified']"/> should be <xsl:value-of select="//*[name()='updated']"/>
- LINE 43: <xsl:value-of select="//*[name()='link']/@href"/>should be <xsl:value-of select="child::*[name()='link']/@href"/>
- LINE 55: <xsl:value-of select="//*[name()='modified']"/> should be <xsl:value-of select="//*[name()='updated']"/>

Attached is a compiled version that incorporates these changes.
Comments: ** Comment from web user: voss23 **

I'm still having few issues with some feeds.
The feed below does not get populated with the correct link.
example:
http://calteacherblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default