Simple RSS Feed Display

This demo illustrates displaying the RSS <item> elements from a remote RSS feed using a DataGrid. Note that the code to accomplish this is about five lines long! (Also note that the data shown in this demo is a snapshot of the RSS feed's data from Monday, March 17th. A static RSS feed is used to reduce load on the ASPMessagboard.com server.)

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Source Code 
<%@ Import Namespace="System.Xml" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.Data" %>
<script language="VB" runat="server">
  Sub Page_Load(sender as Object, e as EventArgs)
    recentPosts.DataSource = GetRSSFeed("http://www.asp.net/news/rss.ashx")
    recentPosts.DataBind()      
  End Sub


  Function GetRSSFeed(strURL as String) as DataTable
    'Get the XML data
    Dim reader as XmlTextReader = New XmlTextReader(strURL)
    
    'return a new DataSet
    Dim ds as DataSet = New DataSet()
    ds.ReadXml(reader)    
    Return ds.Tables(2)
  End Function
</script>
  
<asp:DataGrid runat="server" id="recentPosts" />

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