More Vista RSS Stuff
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Last time I visited this topic I was miffed that the platform SDK that I had access to at the time did not include the RSS API’s. They now exist and are called Web Feeds API. The problem is that they are in native COM only. There isn’t a managed version of them. So I get to use interop by calling the Type Library Importer on the msfeeds.dll. Didn’t they learn their lesson from DirectX that forcing developers to use a shim to the native code is a bad idea?…
Vista ❤ RSS... but hates developers
Monday, September 5, 2005
The RSS platform in Vista has three parts: Common Feed List Common Data Store Platform Sync Engine The data itself is structured like a directory structure. At the top is Feeds (a collection of feeds). Within Feeds there are a list of one or more folders. Each folder can contain zero or more folders and zero or more Feed. Each folder also has a folder properties…. er… properties. Each Feed has one or more Item and Feed Properties.…