ASP.Net RSS Toolkit gives ASP.Net applications the ability to consume and publish to RSS feeds.

Features include:

• RssDataSource control to consume feeds in ASP.NET applications
• Works with ASP.NET data bound controls
• Implements schema to generate columns at design time
• Supports auto-generation of columns at runtime (via ICustomTypeDescriptor implementation)
• Caching of downloaded feeds both in-memory and on-disk (persisted across process restarts)
• Generation of strongly typed classes for feeds (including strongly typed channel, items, image, handler) based on a feed URL (the toolkit recognizes RSS, Atom and RDF feeds) or a file containing a sample feed. Allows programmatically download (and creation) of feeds using strongly-typed classes.

The toolkit includes:

• Consuming feeds, using:
• Stand-alone command line feed compiler that generates VB.Net or C# code files.
• Build provider for .rssdl file (containing the list of feed URI(s) [including local files])
• Build provider for .rss file (containing feed XML in RSS/Atom/RDF or OPML format)
• Support for generation of feeds in ASP.NET application including:
• RSS HTTP handler (strongly typed HTTP handlers are generated automatically by the build providers) to generate the feed.
• RSS Hyper Link control (that can point to RSS HTTP handler) to create RSS links
• Optional secure encoding of user name into query string to allow generation of personalized feeds
• Set of classes for programmatic consumption and generation of RSS feed in a late-bound way, without using strongly types generated classes