RSS Feeds in a vb.net desktop application…

Pete — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:37:08 +0000

Ok so i thought it would be a good idea to write an RSS feed reading into the project that im currently working on.

Based on this i found the following code:



Public Shared Function ProcessRSS(ByVal rssURL As String, ByVal feed As String) As String

Dim request As WebRequest = WebRequest.Create(rssURL)

Dim response As WebResponse = request.GetResponse()

Dim sb As New StringBuilder("")

Dim rssStream As Stream = response.GetResponseStream()

Dim rssDoc As New XmlDocument()

rssDoc.Load(rssStream)

Dim rssItems As XmlNodeList = rssDoc.SelectNodes("rss/channel/item")

Dim title As String = ""

Dim link As String = ""

Dim upperlimit As Integer = rssItems.Count

If upperlimit > 5 Then

upperlimit = 5

End If

If upperlimit > 0 Then

sb.Append("" + feed + "


")

Dim i As Integer = 0

While i < upperlimit

Dim rssDetail As XmlNode

rssDetail = rssItems.Item(i).SelectSingleNode("title")

If Not IsNothing(rssDetail) Then

title = rssDetail.InnerText

Else

title = ""

End If
rssDetail = rssItems.Item(i).SelectSingleNode("link")

If Not IsNothing(rssDetail) Then

link = rssDetail.InnerText

Else

link = ""

End If

sb.Append("
" + title + "
")

i += 1

End While

sb.Append("")

End If

Return sb.ToString()
this is all good and seams to work.. except i needed to add a proxy logon:

request.Proxy.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials

oooo New and Shiney

admin — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:33:47 +0000

Im still trying to figure out whats going on with this wordpress thing, so please bare with me.

It may take me a few days to get all of the piccys back up aswell

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RSS Feeds in a vb.net desktop application…

oooo New and Shiney