After long gestation, RSS has risen to the fore in mere months as a means to share information using software standards. This SearchVB.com learning guide offers articles, tips, tutorials, downloads and other resources for .NET developers who want to learn more about harnessing the power of RSS. If you come across anything in your travels that you think should be added to this guide, let me know. Brian Eastwood, Assistant Editor
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Quick Start |  Table of Contents |
- Definition: RSS (SearchVB.com, powered by Whatis.com)
- Definition: OPML, or Outline Processor Markup Language (WhatIs.com)
- Tutorial: What is RSS? (SearchVB.com, powered by Whatis.com)
- Commentary: The History of RSS (WebReference.com)
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News and Commentary | Table of Contents |
- News: Microsoft adds RSS support to Longhorn (SearchVB.com)
- News: Are RSS feeds the next great marketing tool? (SearchCRM.com)
- News: Independent developers release draft version of RSS 1.1 (Cover Pages)
- News: The XML Files: All about blogs and RSS (MSDN)
- Commentary: E-mail vs. RSS (Alex Barnett)
- Commentary: Will RSS replace e-mail? (eWEEK)
- Commentary: The myth of RSS compatibility (Mark Pilgrim)
- Commentary: Private RSS Feeds: Support for security in aggregators (silverorange labs)
- Commentary: Automatic discovery of RSS feeds (O'Reilly Developer Weblogs)
- Commentary: Proposed RSS extensions (rss-extensions.org)
- Commentary: The Atom syndication format (AtomEnabled)
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Tips | Table of Contents |
- Tip: Accessing RSS resources (SearchWebServices.com)
- Tip: A web app that returns download summaries as RSS (MSDN)
- Tip: Creating a generic site-to-RSS tool (Developer Fusion)
- Tip: Corporate document management with RSS (Robin Good)
- Tip: Comparing Media RSS Formats (World Wide Web Consortium)
- Tip: Putting RDF to work (O'Reilly Network)
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Tutorials | Table of Contents |
- Tutorial: RSS 1.0 News Feed Creation (World Wide Web Consortium)
- Tutorial: RSS 2.0 Specification (Harvard Law School)
- Tutorial: Building a desktop news aggregator (MSDN)
- Tutorial: Creating an Online RSS News Aggregator with ASP.NET (MSDN)
- Tutorial: Retrieve and display an RSS feed your own way (MSDN)
- Tutorial: Merging RSS feeds (MSDN)
- Tutorial: XML Learning Guide (SearchWebServices.com)
- Tutorial: Exploring XML and RSS in Flash (WebReference.com)
- Tutorial: Understanding when and why to use XML (MSDN)
- Tutorial: RSS Tutorial for content publishers and webmasters (Mark Nottingham)
- Tutorial: RSS for educational designers (Stephen Downes)
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Downloads | Table of Contents |
- Download: Blog reader add-in for VS .NET (The Code Project)
- Download: Create an article database with an RSS feed (Automated Logic Corp.)
- Download: Universal Feed Parser (SourceForge.net)
- Download: RSS Feeder .NET (WordPress)
- Download: RSS Bandit (RSS Bandit)
- Download: Library for working on RSS 2.0 (The Code Project)
- Download: RSS News generating tool (The Code Project)
- Download: An RSS reader inside IE (The Code Project)
- Download: RSSMaster (Softtool)
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Online Resources | Table of Contents |
- Quick Links: Best Web links for XML tools (SearchWebServices.com)
- Quick Links: RSS Resources (Larkfarm)
- Quick Links: RSS & Atom Resources (Lockergnome)
- Resource: RSS Library: A .NET framework for building apps to consume RSS feeds (GotDotNet)
- Resource: An open-source .NET class library for RSS feeds (RSS.NET)
- Resource: RSS Tools (Blogspace)
This was first published in August 2005