Windows RSS Platform ala carte

re: Windows RSS Platform ala carte

PatriotB — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 06:09:20 GMT

Nick Bradbury (in the first post you linked to) said "I do hope that there will be a way for the user to keep certain feeds private to specific applications."

I agree with this. Let me give an example. Say I wrote an application which lets the user play games (a game engine). Say I have an RSS feed set up for when there are new games available for download, and I want my app to show these games in a list. I would like my game engine to be able to use the Feeds APIs to accomplish this. But at the same time, it isn't appropriate that my feed show up inside of IE for the user to look at manually.

Are there any plans to support this type of scenario with the Feeds API?

re: Windows RSS Platform ala carte

Matt Terenzio — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 08:46:33 GMT

So the CFL is available only to applications that access it throught the Feed API, and does not reside on the file system somewhere, correct?

re: Windows RSS Platform ala carte

james governor — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 18:29:33 GMT

note on FUD. at the carson show in London yesterday during the panel someone commented that Microsoft had now announced it was retreating on plans to support RSS in vista....

the audience lapped it up.

re: Windows RSS Platform ala carte

Paul van Brenk — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 01:37:03 GMT

I'm very curious about the answer to PatriotB-s question.

Will it be possible to leverage the scheduling and storage components of the RSS engine, without all kinds of subscriptions showing up all over the place. I'm thinking a bit like, hidden files and folder; you can see them if you really want to, but you really shouldn't bother with them.