Saturday, June 10, 2006

The Microsoft Windows RSS Platform

The Microsoft Windows RSS Platform isan application programming interface (API) that developers can use to manipulate the Common Feed List, the set of Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds to which the user is subscribed.

The Windows RSS Platform supports both styles of Component Object Model (COM) interfaces:
Early bound (vtable) interface—the interface that is better for C/C++ developers. These objects are in the IXFeedsManager hierarchy.
Late bound IDispatch interface—COM Automation interface that is ideal for scripting and managed code (Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and C#). These are the IFeedsManager objects.
To avoid unnecessary repetition, the names of the COM Automation interfaces are used herein.

Related Links
Introduction
Common Feed List
Working with Feeds
RSS 2.0 Elements
Feed Synchronization
Related Topics

The Windows RSS Platform object model hierarchy is as follows: