RSS is increasingly emerging as a useful means of exchanging information. And it's not just for the latest news and sports scores -- enterprises are increasingly examining ways to use RSS to improve communication and information sharing among employees.
As RSS spreads, building it into applications grows in importance. Scott Van Vliet recently blogged about this in a post entitled RSS in .NET Made Easy with XML Serialization.
"I use XmlSerializer religiously, and thought it would be quite trivial to build a set of classes to quickly create and publish an RSS feed. Thus, as any geek would do, I did just that," Van Vliet wrote.
"These classes are adorned with System.Xml.Serialization attributes, which comply with the RSS 2.0 Specification," he continued. "To create an RSS document, it's no more difficult than creating and populating [an object]. To generate the XML for this feed, simply call the ToString() method."
Among the comments on Van Vliet's post is a link to a blog post by Phil Weber called East RSS in VB.NET.
"First, I created this class to model the feed….Now all it takes
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to update the feed is to populate the RSS object and serialize it to XML," Weber wrote. (Source code is available for the "this class" here.)
These quick tips should be enough to get you started with adding RSS to .NET applications.
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This was first published in October 2006