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ar·got·ic (ahr-got-ik)

1. A specialized idiomatic vocabulary peculiar to a particular class or group of people.
2. One of the most powerful and extensible web content syndication frameworks available to .NET developers.

Project Description
A powerful and extensible .NET web content syndication framework for RSS, Atom, OPML, APML, BlogML, RSD and more. The Argotic Syndication Framework is a Microsoft .NET class library framework that enables developers to easily consume and/or generate syndicated content from within their own applications. The framework makes the reading and writing syndicated content in common formats such as RSS, Atom, OPML, APML, BlogML, and RSD very easy while still remaining extensible enough to support common/custom extensions to the syndication publishing formats. The framework includes out-of-the-box implementations of the most commonly used syndication extensions, network clients for sending and receiving peer-to-peer notification protocol messages; as well as HTTP handlers, modules, services and controls that provide rich syndication functionality to ASP.NET developers.

Project Road Map

• Argotic Syndication Framework 2008.1.0.0 Planning Center (Aranea)
• Argotic Syndication Framework 2008.2.0.0 Planning Center (Loki)
• Argotic Syndication Framework 2008.3.0.0 Planning Center (Metis)
• Argotic Syndication Framework 2008.4.0.0 Planning Center (Gutenberg)

Argotic In The Spotlight

• dnrTV! Episode #70: The Argotic Syndication Framework
• dnrTV! Episode #91: The Argotic Syndication Framework (Part 2)
• DimeCasts.Net Episode #19: Generating an RSS Feed with Argotic

Argotic In Action

• Community Megaphone
• Dimecasts.net
• Doppler
• FeedZero

Getting Started With The Framework

The Basics

Overview of the framework

• Overview of the features provided by the framework
• Introduction to the framework components
• Introduction to the framework API and core entities

Consuming syndicated content

• Consuming an RSS feed
• Consuming an Atom feed or Atom entry document
• Consuming an OPML outline
• Format agnostic consumption of syndication feeds

Generating syndicated content

• Generating an RSS feed
• Generating an Atom feed or Atom entry document
• Generating an OPML outline

Syndication Extensions

Overview of the framework extensibility model

• Introduction to the framework extension architecture
• Overview of syndication extensions natively supported by the framework

Consuming syndication extension information

• Consuming an extended RSS feed

Generating extended syndicated content

• Generating an extended RSS feed

Network Protocols

Trackback peer-to-peer notification protocol

• Sending notification pings using the Trackback client

XML-RPC communication protocol

• Making remote procedure calls using the XML-RPC client

Specialized Content Formats

Attention Profiling Markup Language (APML)

• Consuming personal attention data
• Generating attention profile information

Web Log Markup Language (BlogML)

• Consuming portable web log content
• Generating portable web log content

Really Simple Discovery (RSD)

• Consuming web log communication services information
• Publishing auto-discoverable web log communication service information

Framework Provider Model

• Introduction to the framework extensible provider model
• Configuring syndication resource providers within your application
• Managing provider based syndicated content
• Creating your own syndication provider

Project Contributors

• Team Guides and Resources

Committed to outside contributors

The Argotic framework would not be where it is today without all of the feedback and support from its end-users. We openly accept anyone who wants to become a contributor on this project, and encourage people to join in a variety of roles. Whether you want to write code, become a tester, or just create documentation or code examples we would be happy to have you. If you are interested in joining, please contact the project coordinator using this form.

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