Is there a reason I can get the Summary but not the Content of a SyndicationItem. I am looking for the entire post. It appears that it depends on how the RSS feed is configured. Is this true?
Can I expect to read the entire content of any RSS feed from the wild? Thanks
I realise this is something of a gravedig, but it's still open and unanswered.
If the content is just text, you could typecast the content to TextSyndicationContent.
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In Google reader(R.I.P) we could select some interesting links by a special tag and then make public them and show links on our blogs or websites.
Is there a way to create this by Google reader alternatives like Inoreader or Feedly or AOL reader or etc?
I should probably start by saying that I'm the BDFL of Inoreader, but I feel obliged to answer you. If anyone thinks my answer is inappropriate or that this can be achieved with one of the other mentioned options, feel free to bash me in the comments :)
Yes, you can do that in Inoreader.
Since you are familiar with Google Reader, you shouldn't have much difficulties starting up with it, but if you have, here's a quick guide to get you started.
Depending on what you need to achieve the option you want is accessible via right-click on a folder or a tag:
Then in the dialog that pops up, you will see an Export option. Click it and you will get 3 links - for RSS feed, HTML page (what you need) and a public OPML file (for folders only):
A few notes on folders and tags:
Folders are used to group sources (RSS, social and other feeds) and content inside them is automatically populated from the feeds.
Tags on the other hand are mostly manually populated by you. When you read an article and you find it interesting, you can press "T" or click the label icon at the bottom of article to tag it. This behavior is almost identical in all major RSS readers. Working with tags in Inoreader is covered in detail in this blog post.
Now I said mostly before, because tags can also be automatically populated by Inoreader's Rules. Basically they works like your email filter. You can set up keywords or other conditions and tag articles automatically as they arrive. This feature is covered in this blog post.
Hope this helps!
Maybe I am being a n00b here, but for the life of me, I cant find a simple drop in type solution for displaying an rss feed inside an aspx page?
I am looking for a simple solution, as when Firefox gets pointed to an rss feed, it just plainly displays it, no thrills, no fuss. I don't want to get into the xml and format it extensively. I just want a basic feed, will style it with font and a:styles. Thats it.
Any ideas?
EDIT:
I am attempting to show a worpress "feed" inside an aspx page...
The simplest solution is to just display it in an iframe, browser will take care of the formating. Otherwise you'll need to parse the xml and create appropriate html tags for each of its elements and/or attributes.
I am looking for advice on how the save long post contents in asp.net. What i mean is that i have a personal website (blog alike) in which i write some code snippets and tutorials. every post got header, tag, date and the content itself. right now i am saving all in mssql table but i am not sure this is the right way to do it, because the content of the post can get very long and i know that sql has a limit of 4000 chars (im using nvarchar as the type of the column). so i thought about saving the post content as usercontrol(.ascx) but from searching it looks too much complicated to create usercontrol on the fly and save it as a file.
so i need your advice on this.
You can use NVARCHAR(MAX) in SQL which removes the limit.
You might look at a "Document Database" such as RavenDB.
Is there a way to track if anyone is using your RSS feeds?
Thanks.
Feedburner (feedburner.google.com) can give you all sorts of stats. I know there are others providing similar services, but that's the one I've used in the past.
Feedburner does exactly that: http://feedburner.google.com
You can include a small single-pixel invisible image in the HTML inside the description tags. This image can be loaded dynamically from a server-side script. When the script executes, you will know some user is reading your RSS feed content and the image has loaded because of that. This way you get to monitor the stats rather than rely one some other service.
I am currently developing a Wordpress site, and everytime a comment, page or article is added/retrieved, the HTML entites in the text are encoded, particulary single quotes/double quotes, like #089A.
Is there a setting or something that can be enabled/disabled that does this? I've tried the usual Google searches but alas I can't find anything.
Cheers,
MiG
Just to update this. I've been looking at the site today and it seems that the offending HTML entitiy is "–"
The posts are being returned via AJAX in a JSON response and instead of seeing – I see "–" plus the semi-colon.
Any reason for this?
Cheers,
MiG