Add-ons

RSS Feed Reader Control

by Data Universal Inc. (Other Publisher)
Updated on: October 26, 2009 | 23140 views

Compatibility: Version 3.7 , Version 3.6
Version: 1.1
Tags: RSS , Free
Terms Of Use

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FREE

RSS Feed Reader is a user control that can be used to consume and display an external RSS feed (Atom is not supported).

Control features include:

* RSS feed caching - the feed is stored in the application cache for 10 minutes resulting in increased performance, and controlled load of the feed source site.
* Request timeout interval - if the source feed cannot be retrieved within the timeout interval, your page will be served with a button in the control display area that allows the user to force a feed refresh. For user-initiated refresh requests the timeout interval is increased with 10 seconds.
* Displays full, partial, or no item description - in case of a partial description setting, all HTML tags are stripped out.
* Enclosure support.

To see it action for various use cases - please visit our RSS Feed Reader demo page.

Deployment instructions, detailed description of all custom properties, and default CSS classes are provided on the download page. 

Screenshot:

Sitefinity user control screenshot

3 comments

  • Lino 13 Jan 2010
    12:00 AM
    I am sorry DU, I find this RSS module lacking.  I understand it is free and would like to thank you for the effort but I definitely do not encourage anyone to use this module based on its current short comings.  Binding the "pubdate" in the ASCX control to a "forced" literal that is always overwritten in the code behind is not the right way to do this.  People will never be able to format the date in the presentation data as you are overwriting any shot at changing the format in the literal of the code behind.  I found the code behind in several areas to be below par utilizing Reflector.
    I hope you don't mind too much my comment, I just wanted to save someone else the time I wasted trying to use this module.
    In the end I ended up writing my own. Oh well.

    With all due respect
    -Lino
  • JC 14 Jul 2010
    06:13 PM
    Thank you so much, DU, Inc. You rock!
  • JingYuan 27 Jul 2011
    10:25 PM
    How to make this to work in Sitefinity 4.1?

    thank you in advance

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