Desktop Application that uses RSS feeds

Question

I need to develop a desktop application that shows the contents of RSS feeds taken from other websites. I have never worked withe RSS feeds before. How can this be done? Can I use C# to develop the desktop application?

Answer 1

An RSS feed is just XML. Google the RSS specification. In C# you could do something like:

XmlReader rdr;
Stream strm;
try
{
    WebClient client = new WebClient();
    strm = client.OpenRead(uri);
    rdr = XmlReader.Create(strm);
    while (!rdr.EOF) {
        // Do something
    }
}