Control Your Feeds with Windows Vista's New RSS Platform
By adding OS-level support for RSS in Vista and making that support available to .NET developers, Microsoft has provided an easy way to build completely new classes of applications with little additional effort.
by Paul Ferrill
March 1, 2007
eally Simple Syndication (RSS) is a set of XML schema that define how providers can publish information destined for consumers. In its most common form, RSS holds the text and pictures you find on someone's blog, but RSS can just as easily contain news headlines or multimedia files attached to a description. As the name implies, RSS is a simple set of standardized XML tags.
Unfortunately, RSS isn't all that "standardized." The term really covers a group of formats that have developed over time. The two most common formats are RSS 2.0 and Atom 0.3. But the good news for developers is that Microsoft's new RSS support in Windows Vista handles not only these (and earlier versions of the RSS spec), but looking forward, Microsoft has promised support for Atom 1.0 when it is released. The bottom line is that Vista developers don't have to worry about RSS formats—the Vista RSS API takes care of that for you transparently.
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eally Simple Syndication (RSS) is a set of XML schema that define how providers can publish information destined for consumers. In its most common form, RSS holds the text and pictures you find on someone's blog, but RSS can just as easily contain news headlines or multimedia files attached to a description. As the name implies, RSS is a simple set of standardized XML tags.
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