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RSS Feeds are just XMLs – so building a RSS reader is not so difficult, first you know how to do it

Let’s start with looking at C# function that reads the RSS Feeds.

First step is to collect the feeds. This is done by using WebRequest:

System.Net.WebRequest myRequest = System.Net.WebRequest.Create(rssURL);
System.Net.WebResponse myResponse = myRequest.GetResponse();
 
System.IO.Stream rssStream = myResponse.GetResponseStream();
System.Xml.XmlDocument rssDoc = new System.Xml.XmlDocument();
rssDoc.Load(rssStream);

I just installed the ExpandIT Online Connector on a Server which is running the 64bit version of Windows 2003.

The Installation went well – and everything seams to be running – until I noticed, that the ASP pages could not use the ActiveX object for the ExpandIT Online Connector.

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