RSS Toolkit Update

ASP.NET RSS Toolkit

dmitryr's blog — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 10:17:31 GMT

Latest update available here (3/26/2006)
Please check out ASP.NET RSS Toolkit, one of my latest projects....

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Simone Busoli — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 11:18:28 GMT

Hi Dmitryr, tell the guys of www.asp.net to update their links in the Sandbox page!

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Marc Scheuner — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 12:50:20 GMT

Dmitry,

It would be great if you could add "Conditional GET" / ETag support into your RSS Toolkit in order to greatly reduce the number of wasted bytes transferred that never really need to be transferred....

For details, see here:

http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2002/10/21/http_conditional_get_for_rss_hackers

http://www.kbcafe.com/rss/rssfeedstate.html

That would make your excellent RSS Toolkit actually fully production quality!

Thanks
Marc

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DmitryR — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 21:13:13 GMT

Marc,

1) The Base RSS handler doesn't know the last modified date. I could (a) add a protected property for that or (b) try to get the date from feed content somehow.

2) Fot ETags, I could add simple hashing of the generated content to make up an ETag in the response and respect if-none-match header of the request (assuming feed readers in fact use it).

What of the above makes sense?

Thanks,

Dmitry

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Hank — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 21:36:38 GMT

Thanks for the code, really appreciate it.

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logic — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 21:47:30 GMT

How about a vb port?
thanks
logic

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DmitryR — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 22:03:52 GMT

RSS Toolkit assembly can be used in VB.NET applications. RSSDL tool can generate VB.NET sources.

However, I don't have a plan to port Toolkit sources into VB. I am sure there are VB <-> C# porting tools around.

Thanks,

Dmitry

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Hank — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 22:34:15 GMT

OK, so I commented earlier BEFORE I tried the code, now I'm back to elaborate. YOU my friend, are the man!
Custom DataTypes based on the peculiarities of one feed vs. another? Nice thinking, very nice.

I use the Geo namespace in my feed, and this little gem completely solved a problem I was beginning to tackle with the xmldatasource and the xpath stuff no more than an hour or so after you posted this. JIT software releases! I love it. Thanks dude.

Oh, logic: use "reflector" to do your porting.

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Sander Duivestein — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 11:14:41 GMT

I already used the article you suggested for setting the MaxItems returned of an Rss feed.

But this is way more elegant. Many thanks!

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re: RSS Toolkit Update

James Clarke — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:59:19 GMT

Dimitry... any thoughts on adding support for the enclosure tag?

cheers and keep up the great work

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darenhan@yahoo.com — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:48:27 GMT

how do i personalise the feeds?

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DmitryR — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:15:08 GMT

To personalize please use userName (passed to PopulateChannel method of the handler) to call profile APIs

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DmitryR — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:24:58 GMT

I'll add the support for the enclosures to my list... Do many real feeds use it?

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iwonder — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:05:56 GMT

Lot's of newgen feeds use the enclosure tags. Also, I'd like to see an example of how to use the control specifying a custom xsl. Is that possible? I don't really like the formatting done with the datalist, but that's just a peculiar trait of mine, I guess.

Also, how does this support multiple namespaces included in various feeds as put out by google, feedburner, atom and the like? Maybe I'm missing the point and this is just for RSS types only.

Just a newbie, so don't hang me, just elighten me, please.

Oh, and thanks for the control, too.

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iwonder — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:06:33 GMT

I read somewhere that caching of the feed was configurable. How's that done?

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DmitryR — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:33:08 GMT

Caching is based on 'ttl'. If ttl attribute is missing, the default value is taken from config:
<appSettings>
<add key="defaultRssTtl" value="10"/>
</appSettings>

There is no support for custom XSL (the idea of the toolkit is to help people who don't want to deal with XML/XSL and would rather use C# or VB classes). The toolkit parses understands rss and rdf. In my experience it was able to parse whatever I pointed it too. Attributes from various namespaces get preserved under their names. RSSDL generates strongly typed attributes named accordingly.

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darenhan — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 04:31:25 GMT

what profile apis should i call after i pass username to the populatechannel method for personalisation?

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DmitryR — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 04:54:01 GMT

Please use ProfileManager.FindProfilesByUserName(), and pass it the user name that is the argument to PopulateChannel()

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RSS Toolkit Update

chris — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:19:04 GMT

Dimytry has posted an updated version of the RSS Toolkit (that I referenced http://hitechresource.com/blogs/chris/archive/2006/02/22/4.aspx&nbsp;in...

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Sahil Malik — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 20:52:32 GMT

Dimitry,

This is kinda cool, but I see that you are simply using Dictionary <string,string> when you load attributes.

This unfortunately ignores all attributes in the RSS Feed - which undoubtedly is a serious downer.

For instance, this cannot be used for podcasts because the enclosures are enclosed under the "url" attribute of the "enclosures" element.

Just wondering if you're planning to address that anytime soon? :)

SM

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DmitryR — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 21:26:28 GMT

Yes, I know, enclosures need to be supported. It is on my list now.

Please point me to the feeds that need support, so that I could use them as examples.

Thanks,

Dmitry

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James Clarke — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:47:13 GMT

RE enclosure tags.. In answer to your question this is the whole basis for podcasting so yes, they are very widely used. There is a directory of podcast feeds at http://www.podshow.com/directories.html and the itunes website has a similar directory each with thousands of example feeds. The canonical example is probably Adam Curry's Dailysourcecode which is at http://radio.weblogs.com/0001014/categories/dailySourceCode/rss.xml

cheers

James

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Sahil Malik — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:55:49 GMT

Dimitry, any podcast would have enclosures :)

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Arni Bjorgvinsson — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 14:20:13 GMT

Could any of you guys direct me to an example about how to create a data source in a ashx handler and to loop through records, surely that's the way to generate the feed automatically from a database isn't it?

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ice9 — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:34:33 GMT

I am new to 2.0 so kindly excuse.

Well I tried loading the channels dynamically the problem is
I can't instantiate the channel object, its unable to refer to the Channel Class..I added the .cs file in my app_code
I am usin the express edition of VS

back in the 1.x days we could use the using directive to refer to the proxy classes out here when I type using there is nothing in the intellsense for the proxy classes.

MsnbcChannel channel = MsnbcChannel.LoadChannel();

DataList.DataSource = channel.Items;

DataList.DataBind();

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DmitryR — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 19:44:11 GMT

Arni,

ASHX handler is not a page and it doesn't host controls, but of course you can use System.Data APIs there to get your data from a database.

Thanks,

Dmitry

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DmitryR — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 19:44:13 GMT

Arni,

ASHX handler is not a page and it doesn't host controls, but of course you can use System.Data APIs there to get your data from a database.

Thanks,

Dmitry

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DmitryR — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 19:46:32 GMT

ice9, what exact error do you see? Is app_code directly under the application root? Can you put a simple .cs file there and refer to it from your pages?

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Colin Bowern — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 19:43:53 GMT

Dmitry,

In the next release it would be nice to see the RssDataSource control support virtual paths for the RSS data. For example:

<rss:RssDataSource ID="WhatsNewData" runat="server" Url="~/news/newsfeed.xml" MaxItems="5" />

Thanks,
Colin

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Jason N. Gaylord — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 20:28:04 GMT

Dmitry,

I ran into an instance where the RSS has the dates from earliest to latest. I didn't get a chance to look at the code yet, but do you have a way to alter the RSSDataSource so the items are reversed? In other words, if I set max items at 5, can it show me 2 from April and 3 from March instead of 3 from January and 2 from February?

Jason

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DmitryR — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 21:05:52 GMT

Jason,

Obviously with source changes it is doable – please see RssDataSource MaxItems implementation and Channel's SelectItems method.

I will add another RssDataSource property for the items order in the next release.

Thanks,

Dmitry

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Jason N. Gaylord — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 22:36:50 GMT

Thanks for the pointer Dmitry. I'll look into that.

Also, thanks for creating such a useful tool. I had a library that operated close to this, but did not nearly include as much functionality.

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Steve Townend — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 02:24:37 GMT

This is just what I have been looking for to enable me to easily generate alerts from one of our internal systems management ASP.NET apps. Works a treat - almost.

The problem is that we have a site that uses Basic authentication over SSL. The authentication is no problem (from most RSS readers), however, I cannot use https as I get an error. If I then enable http access it works fine but obviously is not secure as Basic credentials are passed in the clear.

Is there a limitation with the toolkit here or am I doing something else wrong?

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Steve Townend — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 02:27:28 GMT

Simple List Extension (SLE), I am very interesting in building this into my generated feeds. Should it work with the toolkit and is there anything special I need to do to make it work?

I am so impressed so far, thanks very much for this.

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DmitryR — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 02:42:19 GMT

Steve,

The Toolkit simpy uses WebClient::DownloadData(string url) to get the feed. And it should take https URLs just fine. Can you try it directly from a page?

I don't know about SLE. If you run into problems please point me to examples and I will try to make it work.

Thanks,

Dmitry

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Jason N. Gaylord — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 15:32:56 GMT

Idea for your next version:

Dmitry,

Last night I was working with my app offline and I noticed that there is no error being handled where the download of the feed takes place in DownloadChannelDom() in RssDownloadManager.cs. I'll put one in for my own use, but it might be something you'll want to add in the future. I'm assuming in most instances, just kicking off an error might not be good because then the page would serve an error while it loads.

Jason

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Steve Townend — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 16:04:33 GMT

Dmitry,

Thanks for the response.

Just for clarity, when I mentioned HTTPS. it was in the context of generating RSS feeds using your toolkit, not in consuming other people's feeds. Anyway, I have done more testing and it seems that it is not a problem with the toolkit but with the reader. I tried "RSS Reader" and "RSS Bandit". However, it seems that HTTPS is fine from "GreatNews" and IE7 - I think!

As for SLE, I have tried but ot had any success yet. Please see http://blogs.msdn.com/rssteam/archive/2006/03/29/564154.aspx for an example of SLE, what it is, and how to add to your feeds. I want this to have "top 10" type lists.

Cheers,
Steve.

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Ujjwal — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 16:29:25 GMT

Dmitry,
I keep getting an error "failed to load RSS Feed for specified URL" when i try to configure the RssDataSource config form. Is this problem somthing to do with my internet proxy settings or is my toolkit not properly installed..

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Mickey Epperson — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 18:17:31 GMT

Dmitry,

Does the toolkit support publishing a feed with additional namespaces?

Cheers,
Mickey

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Mark — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 04:31:59 GMT

Nice kit, very.

Interesting buglike behaviour in Firefox - when you put a RssHyperLink with IncludeUserName=True
and the page is posted back (eg put a calandar control on the page also and click a date or something), an error:

'/ClubWebSite/scenario5.ashx?t=A477EA...C13FD02C2' is not a valid virtual path.'

Any clue?

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DmitryR — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 01:39:32 GMT

Mark,

I will include the fix for the postback problem in my next update (coming really soon).

Thanks,

Dmitry

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SergejG — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:28:08 GMT

Hi,
What about to add a password string to method PopulateChannel(string channelName, string userName, <i>string Password</i>) for using with custom authentication? IMHO, it can be added the same way as user name...

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M Noreen — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 18:45:59 GMT

I downloaded the zip file; then created a new Web site project in VS2005 on my local dev box that has .NET 2.0 framework installed. Added a bin folder to that project and copied the DLL to that folder; then copied the scenario1.aspx file to my new web project.

But it won't build throwing 2 errors:

Element 'rssdatasource' is not a known element. This can occur if there is a compilation error in the Web site

and

Request for the permission of type 'System.Web.AspNetHostingPermission, System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' failed.

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

-- Margo

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DmitryR — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 19:51:54 GMT

Sergei, I don't know where I would get the password. Once the user is authenticated I only know IIdentity. The password is a detail of athentication logic.

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DmitryR — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 19:52:48 GMT

Margo, please try adding the toolkit assembly to GAC

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Steve Townend — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 00:04:17 GMT

Dmitri,

Did you look at my previous post on the Simple List Extension (SLE) ? I have not been able to get it working with the RSS Toolkit.

Thanks,
Steve.

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M Noreen — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 00:31:53 GMT

One thing I discovered that seemed to "fix" the current problem... when I created new web projects in Visual Studio, I had been accepting the default location for them, which, in my case, happened to be "My Documents" located on a network share. This seemed to cause the compiler all sorts of fits when it tried to build (don't know why really, but it would have to do w/ some sort of permission gremlins I'm sure!).

So, I created a new web project and made sure it was on my local hard drive, and then I was able to build the project successfully.

Unfortunately, I went from one issue to another. When I ran the page, I got a nasty .NET error page, socket connection problems, etc. We have a proxy server in our environment that all outbound IP traffic goes through, I'm sure that's the problem... but not sure how to work through it at this point...

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Dan Lundy — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 22:29:55 GMT

I offer you great THANKS for releasing this toolkit to us and having it out in the wild!

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Andrew Van Slaars — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 06:13:07 GMT

Very nice work,
<a href="http://blog.vanslaars.com/Trackback.aspx?guid=616b2094-e18a-4af7-b12c-d4f63b6396a7">had to mention it myself.</a>

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James H — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 18:23:50 GMT

Great Tool kit...Nice Work..Thanks for sharing!!!!

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Rick Ratayczak — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:58:46 GMT

Here's a macro for VS2005 that will allow you to run the rssdl.exe and generate a class into visual studio.

<div style="width: auto; overflow: auto;">
Sub AddRssFeedCode()
' The folder for the RSS Feed.
Dim AppRunFolder As String = "E:\Source\_shared\Bin2005\asp.net\RSS\"
Dim AppRun As String = "Rssdl.exe"
Dim appLang As String = "vb"
Dim Url As String = InputBox("Enter RSS Url", "Rss Class Generator", "")
Dim Title As String = InputBox("Enter RSS Title", "Rss Class Generator", "")
Dim args As String = AppRunFolder + Title.Replace(" ", "").Replace("'", "") + "." + appLang
If Url = "" Then Exit Sub
If Title = "" Then Exit Sub

Dim ProcInfo As New Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo(AppRunFolder + AppRun, Url + " """ + args + """")
ProcInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden
ProcInfo.WorkingDirectory = AppRunFolder
ProcInfo.CreateNoWindow = True
ProcInfo.UseShellExecute = True

Dim Proc As Diagnostics.Process

Try
Proc = Diagnostics.Process.Start(ProcInfo)
Proc.WaitForExit(30000)
Catch ex As Exception
MsgBox("RSS Feed not created successfully." + Environment.NewLine + ex.ToString, MsgBoxStyle.Critical, "Rss Class Generator")
End Try

If IO.File.Exists(args) Then
DTE.ItemOperations.AddExistingItem(args)
File.Delete(args)
Else
MsgBox("RSS Feed not created successfully." + Environment.NewLine + "File does not exist...", MsgBoxStyle.Critical, "Rss Class Generator")
End If

End Sub

</div>

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Spotnick — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 07:27:44 GMT

Any news on adding the "enclosure" tag support?

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owd — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:10:36 GMT

Thanks a lot, Dmitry.

Nach.

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guy — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:53:55 GMT

Hey, nice component thanks. but I sometimes get a problem if an RSS feed is selected that doesn't have a catagory tag, then RSS raises an exception when I try to read that property.

Please please please .... Can you suggest a mod that would make rsstoolkit toolkit return an empty string rather than a null or an exception if a particular tag is missing.

Thanks

Guy (UK)

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DmitryR — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 21:01:40 GMT

Guy,

What is the exact exception you are getting? Are you using the datasource control or the APIs? Strongly-typed or lated-bound?

Thanks,

Dmitry

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Stephen — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 19:52:08 GMT

This tool kit is great. I have had great success in playing around with it. One question I have is when attaching to a datasource which has the image attribute, I am not sure in the datalist how to pull that field in the eval statement, like the other items are pulled in.

The item fields work fine, <%# Eval("title") %>, however, I am not sure how to pull in the image url in the header text.

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DmitryR — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 19:32:32 GMT

Stephen,

You can get to Channel object from DataSource by using Channel property:

DataSource1.Channel.Image["link"]

Thanks,

Dmitry

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Jesper Jensens Weblog — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:39:42 GMT

Les dix bonnes raisons (non techniques) d'ajouter des flux RSS à un site web

Christophe Lauer, Blog Edition — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:49:47 GMT

Durant notre session Mini Mix à Toulouse aujourd'hui, un des participants avec qui j'ai parlé pendant

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christopherpond — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 04:54:52 GMT

Is there anyway you could make the elipses default to the url associated with that particular blog entry. I can use the String object to remove the elipses and add them back if necessary. Thanks for the great control

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DmitryR — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 18:45:17 GMT

Christoher, please explain the scenario you refer to.

Thanks,

Dmitry

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TheDugglerrr — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:11:06 GMT

Hi Dmitry,

Your work looks great, although I am having troubles 'installing' (and therefore using) it.

I am using:

Workstation:

-XPSP2

-VS2005 Pro

-.Net version=2.0.50727

Dev Server:

-2003Std

-.Net version=2.0.50727

First up, I've been coding for years, but still getting my head around dotNet (ie forgive me if I sound confused :P)

I attempted to install the RSSToolkit.dll using GACUtil (found in "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin")

Result:

"Assembly Imported Successfully!"

However, when I create a datalist, and attempt to create a new DataSource for it, the RSSDataSource is not available from the list as shown on: http://aspalliance.com/ArticleFiles/919/image003.jpg

I have installed the RSSToolKit on BOTH the workstation's GAC and the DevServer's GAC, also rebooted both (just for sh!#$ and giggles) to no avail. I even created a bin folder in my site, and placed another copy of RSSToolKit.dll in there, but no joy.

Did I miss a step in the install process ?

Is this toolkit compatible with .Net 2.0.50727 ?

Do I need to include a "Imports RSSToolkit" type statement ?

What am I doing wrong :(

Thanks in advance,

Douglas

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DmitryR — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:27:16 GMT

Douglas,

.Net 2.0.50727 is the right version.

You probably need to add the control to the toolbox - this can be done by right click in the toolbox and selecting "Choose Items...". If the assembly is in the GAC just select the control from the list.

If things don't work please try the included samples - do they work at runtime? In VisualStudio?

Thanks,

Dmitry

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TheDugglerrr — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:48:26 GMT

Hi Dmitry,

Thanks for the quick response :)

I set up a new website on the devserver, calling it: RSSTest

The web.config file was renamed to web.config.original

Then I copied the samples folder (including YOUR web.config) to the root of the RSSTest site.

The samples worked fine... Here's one of the headlines: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15439415/

BUT...

The assembly does not appear in the list of .Net Components found in: Tools > Choose Toolbox Items... even though I installed it using the GACutil.

I sorted by namespace, name, assembly name etc, and entered 'rss' into the filter box, yeilding zero results.

Here are a couple of screenshots of the IDE: http://dug.mine.nu/dmitry

Thanks again ;)

Douglas

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DmitryR — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:15:55 GMT

Douglas,

The following steps worked for me:

* Close VS if it is open

* remove RssToolkit from GAC using "gacutil -u RssToolkit"

* Open VS and right click on Toolbox and select "Reset Toolbox"

* Close VS

* Install RssTookit into GAC using "gacutil -i RssToolkit.dll"

* Open VS and right click on Toolbox and select "Choose Item..."

* Click on "Browse..." and select RssToolkit.dll from where you installed it (not in GAC)

* I see RssDataSource and RssHyperLink in the Toolbox under "General"

Thanks,

Dmitry

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TheDugglerrr — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:50:54 GMT

Fantastic!

All smiles here...

The only thing I hadn't done was:

* Click on "Browse..." and select RssToolkit.dll from where you installed it (not in GAC)

Thanks so much for your assistance ;)

Douglas

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TheDugglerrr — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 10:44:51 GMT

Hi Dmitry,

I have an autopostbacking Drop-Down List:

Names=Australian States

Values=http://blah.com/feed.xml

I'm having a little trouble getting RSSDatasource to work as expected...

I can change the URL manually and it works, but if I use Page_Load... RSSDataSource1.URL = DropDownList1.SelectedItem.Value it doesnt.

I thought there might be some kind of RSSDataSource1.Refresh / Reload / ReFetch method ?

I Response.Wrote(DropDownList1.SelectedItem.Value) and the URL came up as expected, so the DropDownList / postback part seems to be working ok...

Can this be done ?

Thanks in advance,

Douglas

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DmitryR — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:52:39 GMT

It looks like the data is cached on the postback in the viewstate by the data control. Please disable viewstate:

<asp:datalist enableviewstate="false">

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TheDugglerrr — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 05:15:34 GMT

Hi Dmitry,

Thanks for the pointer. I made the change you suggested, but it didnt work...

I tried setting viewstate=flase in a number of places (page, other controls etc) before stumbling accross the AutoEventWireup="False" attribute in the page header.

I changed this to AutoEventWireup="True" and now its all working just the way I'd hoped :)

I'm now studying up on 'AutoEventWireup' :)

Thanks again for your assistance,

Douglas

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loreena — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 02:18:18 GMT

Hi Dmitry,

I use RssToolkit-1-0-0-1, and try to add querystring to my ChannelRss.ashx but I get the following error: ~/ChannelRss.ashx?channelID=1 is not a valid virtual path.

The code I use:

Rsshyperlink.NavigateUrl = "~/ChannelRss.ashx?channelID=1";

Thanks in advance.

re: RSS Toolkit Update

DmitryR — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 04:34:42 GMT

Loreena, please use ChannelName property of RssHyperLink to pass custom data to the channel handler.

Thanks,

Dmitry

re: RSS Toolkit Update

loreena — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 05:43:21 GMT

Thanks!

Regards,

loreena

ASP.NET RSS Toolkit sur CodePlex

Tonio's developper .NET Blog — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 11:38:38 GMT

Dmitry Robsman ( http://blogs.msdn.com/dmitryr/ ) met désormais à disposition les releases de son RSS

re: RSS Toolkit Update

cgraving — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:43:18 GMT

Dmitry,

I have created a feed with a ashx handler and a query string. The feed can be read with IE7, but I cannot consume the feed with my own reader. Using a RSSDataSource, I get an invalid characters in path. I tried the late binding and I also receive errors. Do you have any idea of where to start looking? I have to add that I modified the RSSHTTPHandlerHelper to modify the encryption being used on the query string to use the sites authentication and encryption methods. If I use the RSSHyperLink control it links properly to the handler which produces the feed and again it works in IE7.

Thanks,

Carl

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re: RSS Toolkit Update

bizbuy — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:50:23 GMT

a great tool, it's very convenient to read and write rss now. thanks

re: RSS Toolkit Update

polymorphicpodcast — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:13:58 GMT

Do you have a way to trap for errors such as 404 and timeouts when using the RSSDataSource bound to a datalist?

Thanks,

Craig

re: RSS Toolkit Update

DmitryR — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:35:02 GMT

Craig,

The project is now on CodePlex -- http://www.codeplex.com/aspnetrsstoolkit

Please post your feature requests there.

Thanks,

Dmitry

The Blomsma Code - Site update using RssToolkit

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RSS ToolKit for ASP.NET 2.0 Update

ljianl — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:52:47 GMT

用于VS.NET 2005 http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/03/26/RSS-ToolKit-for-ASP.NET-2.0-Update.aspx

re: RSS Toolkit Update

viktor.larsson — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:37:17 GMT

Great tool.

Just have a question.

I am using your toolkit to consume a RDF-source. Everything works great, manages to select everything from the source except items that have a node within the node.

Example:

<dc:items>

<mime:type>pdf</mime>

</dc:items>

etc.

It just skips that node entirely. Is there a way or should I post a request at Codeplex?

Thanks in advance!

re: RSS Toolkit Update

DmitryR — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:33:53 GMT

Please post feature requests on CodePlex: http://www.codeplex.com/ASPNETRSSToolkit/WorkItem/List.aspx

Thanks,

Dmitry

re: RSS Toolkit Update

Ahm — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:54:18 GMT

Hello,

I'm using this VS 2005 web project. From what I've read the /Bin directory is still supported for backwards compatibility with ASP.NET 1.1 applications. Can i put the rsstoolkit.dll in one of the more appropriate directories within my web project rather than the GAC ?

If so, which one of the application directory [within my web project] can I use?

Regards

re: RSS Toolkit Update

Ahm — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:30:45 GMT

Hello,

Ops I might have been incorrect about the bin directory. Any

i've put the dll into the bin directory.

I link the control to a datalist and point the rsscontrol to the rss feed. I get a {"DataBinding: 'RssToolkit.RssElementCustomTypeDescriptor' does not allow indexed access."}. This is without replacing datalist control with a hyperlink . Is this by design ?

Regards

re: RSS Toolkit Update

DmitryR — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:02:08 GMT

Pointing datalist to RssDataSource should work.

The toolkit is now on CodePlex (http://www.codeplex.com/aspnetrsstoolkit) - please report problems there.

Thanks,

Dmitry

re: RSS Toolkit Update

JimLiu — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:31:54 GMT

Dmitry,

I've implemented your toolkit into our social website and it works great! However I do encounter one problem: we use ASP.NET Memebership to do the authentication, and we put a LoginStatus control on every page so users can login / logout. But I notice that if users logout on pages with a RSS control, they got a error says "something.ashx?c=channel' is not a valid virtual path. But if we remove the channelName property from the RSS control, everything's fine. Perhaps you could point out something I missed?

Thanks!

re: RSS Toolkit Update

DmitryR — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:52:53 GMT

I believe this should be fixed in the release on CodePlex (http://www.codeplex.com/aspnetrsstoolkit). Please give it a try.

Thanks,

Dmitry

re: RSS Toolkit Update

JimLiu — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 08:06:01 GMT

Dmitry,

I downloaded the file from CodePlex, which I think is the same as the file you posted here (1.0.0.1). The problem still persists. I noticed someone also reported here that postback will causing this error, so I tried selecting a day on a Calendar and the error occured. Did I download an older version from CodePlex (but I coldn't find a newer one) or this problem is not fixed yet?

Thanks!

Jim

re: RSS Toolkit Update

DmitryR — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:01:28 GMT

The new version on CodePlex will be out very soon.

If you need the fix now, please email me (use the link at the top of this page).

Thanks,

Dmitry

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re: RSS Toolkit Update

primortal — Wed, 30 May 2007 22:30:07 GMT

Our internet access requires domain authentication, so running the rss toolkit on our intranet server is generating an error stating it could not find the RSS feed supplied. Is there a way I can pass credentials with the RSS toolkit control? If so how?

Thanks

re: RSS Toolkit Update

primortal — Wed, 30 May 2007 22:30:29 GMT

Thanks

re: RSS Toolkit Update

rahulzankar — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:20:55 GMT

hi,

This is great tool that u developed.

Thanks for the tool.

Rahul

Help With RSS feed and ASP?

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[tool]ASP.NET 2.0 RSS Tool-Kit

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re: RSS Toolkit Update

bizbuy — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:24:49 GMT

Good RSS tool, it's becoming popular in RSS Feed

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RSS Toolkit for ASP.net

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re: RSS Toolkit Update

tmahmud@hotmail.com — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:15:25 GMT

Hi Dmitri,

Thanks for the tool. I have a question? On the RSS feed page by default it displays:

Title, Description and Link. I want to add a date so it looks like

Title

Date

Description

Link

Is it something that can be configured easily if yes how? Or do I have to modify the source code.

Another Question: Where do I look at in order to change the style of the ashx handler page.

Thanks in advance.

Tareq

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