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Expose Windows Services as RSS and Atom

The .Net 3 team has just released the “Windows Communication Foundation RSS Toolkit” (download). The toolkit is intended to help you expose any Windows service as an RSS feed, Atom feed, or SOAP endpoint. (It isn’t meant for consuming feeds, however.)

This diagram from the help documentation shows the basic components involved in the toolkit:

WCFRSS
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The fact that you can expose RSS or Atom or SOAP with essentially the same code is pretty sweet. I haven’t done any C# in awhile, but the code samples make it look like the toolkit would be reasonably straight-forward to use. I suspect, however, that novice dot-netters could get wrapped around an axle if they rush to implementation.

Kudos to Clemens Vasters and his Microsoft colleagues for a promising new toolkit.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 13th, 2006 at 21:49 and is filed under syndication. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Responses to “Expose Windows Services as RSS and Atom”

  1. Lance Robinson Says:
    June 14th, 2006 at 20:07

    I can’t wait to try this out. I have been generating feeds from all kinds of data recently using RSSBus (RSSBus.com), a new product that my company is working on. Feed generation is just the tip of the iceberg. Imagine what you can do with manipulation and “pipelining” of feeds.

  2. 虚拟主机 Says:
    June 28th, 2006 at 19:59

    I am using RSSBus also,it’s easy.