Accessing an RSS news feed from an ASP.NET web page using Visual Basic.net

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. An RSS feed is a dynamic XML document that fits a specific format (schema)., which you can easily read into an ADO.NET dataset.

For this example, we use the Yahoo News feed from http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/topstories.

This example assumes that you have a label on your page named Label1.

Label1.Text = ""
Dim DS As New DataSet
DS.ReadXml("http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/topstories")
For x As Integer = 0 To DS.Tables("item").Rows.Count - 1
Label1.Text &= "<p><a href='" & _
DS.Tables("item").Rows(x).Item("link") & "'>"
Label1.Text &= DS.Tables("item").Rows(x).Item("title") & "</a><br>"
Label1.Text &= DS.Tables("item").Rows(x).Item("description") & "</p>"
Next

In an RSS news feed, the XML format contains an element (table) named item, which has sub-elements (columns) named Link, Title, and Description. This code uses the linl and title to build a hyperlink to the news story, and then displays the description.

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