Reading out an RSS feed
Most modern, regularly updated websites (such as news sites, blogs, and so on) allow the users of these sites to subscribe to a Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed (which is in fact an XML file that follows a certain schema), which will typically contain excerpts of site updates. A lot of people use specialized RSS readers for this (such as Google Reader) or integrate the RSS feeds into applications that they use on a day-to-day basis (such as Outlook).
Silverlight includes a few classes to make it very easy to write your own RSS reader. In this recipe, we'll learn how to achieve this.
Getting ready
We'll need to start from a Silverlight solution that contains a few sample feeds and some code to show the feeds you're going ...
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