RSS.NET

Completed, current, and future goals of RSS.NET

Completed goals

View ChangeLog identifying all modifications to the source

• Compiled and tested under the .NET Compact Framework 1.0
• Compiled under Mono 0.24 and Linux
• RssReader
  • Updated Try/Catch in RssReader
  • If the reader isn't moving, throws lastException
• Added VB.NET examples

Version 1.0 goals

• Add support for RSS auto-discovery
• Add full support for all RSS modules
• RssFeed.Write() should set LastModified and ETag in the HTTP header when writing to a stream
• RssItemCollection sorting
• Make RssWriter 100% spec compliant with each version supported
• Make SkipHours and SkipDays easier to work with
• Support RSS 1.0 spec
• Pass a new class, RssWriterOptions, in the RssWriter constructor, giving the writer more optional options
  • Referencing an XML Stylesheet
  • How to encode html and scripts (CDATA,ESCAPE,XHTML)
  • How many channels to write
  • How many items to write per channel
  • Work on the RssFeed and RssReader classes' exception handling
  • Add all unknown elements and attributes to a UnsupportedElementsCollection based on DictionaryBase

Future goals

• Add asynchronous methods for reading and writing feeds to the RssFeed class
• Update all properties that contain html from the string data type to a new object capable of removing html and scripts:
  • Removing all html from an item's title
  • Removing all scripts from an item's description
• Add support for the ICloneable interface
• In documentation, Move each class to a separate file and add <see> to RssElement class
• Compile and test under DotGNU Portable.NET
• Update class serialization
• RSS.NET Web Service supporting the rssCloud interface with HTTP-POST, XML-RPC (with XML-RPC.NET), and SOAP.
• Make RssFeedCollection, RssChannelCollection, and RssItemCollection design-time data sources
• Move documentation out of cs files and include examples inside documentation
• Add SecurityPermissionAttribute to methods
• Integrate help with Visual Studio .NET

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