ASP.Net:Create RSS Feed | Neha Sharma

Introduction:

This article is about to create RSS feed in asp.net

Procedure:

To create a rss feed follow below steps here:

1.       Add below line in to rss page under the page directive line like below :

<%@ OutputCache Duration="120" VaryByParam="*" %>

2.       Create a table with the field Id,title,description and url and enter some dummy data like :

        3.   Add the below code on page load :

string connectionString = "Data Source=name;Initial Catalog=db name;Integrated Security=True";

DataTable d_t = new DataTable();

SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(connectionString);

using (conn)

{

SqlDataAdapter adp = new SqlDataAdapter("SELECT * from tablename", conn);

adp.Fill(d_t);

}

Response.Clear();

Response.ContentType = "text/xml";

XmlTextWriter Text_Writer = new XmlTextWriter(Response.OutputStream, Encoding.UTF8);

Text_Writer.WriteStartDocument();

//Below tags are mandatory rss

Text_Writer.WriteStartElement("rss");

Text_Writer.WriteAttributeString("version", "2.0");

// Channel tag will contain RSS feed details

Text_Writer.WriteStartElement("channel");

Text_Writer.WriteElementString("title", " ASP.NET ");

Text_Writer.WriteElementString("link", "http://nehaprogrammer.blogspot.com");

Text_Writer.WriteElementString("description", " C#.NET,ASP.NET ");

Text_Writer.WriteElementString("copyright", "Copyright 2013 - 2014 nehaprogrammer.blogspot.com. All rights reserved.");

foreach (DataRow oFeedItem in d_t.Rows)

{

Text_Writer.WriteStartElement("item");

Text_Writer.WriteElementString("title", oFeedItem["Title"].ToString());

Text_Writer.WriteElementString("description", oFeedItem["Description"].ToString());

Text_Writer.WriteElementString("link", oFeedItem["URL"].ToString());

Text_Writer.WriteEndElement();

}

Text_Writer.WriteEndElement();

Text_Writer.WriteEndElement();

Text_Writer.WriteEndDocument();

Text_Writer.Flush();

Text_Writer.Close();

Response.End();

}

Save all and view the page in browser. It  ll work perfectly.

Thanks

Neha Sharma