This article will show you how to read RSS and display it in ASP.NET GridView control. The code is straightforward and easy to understand.
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="ReadRSS.aspx.cs"
Inherits="ReadRSS" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
<title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="False">
<Columns>
<asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Title">
<ItemTemplate>
<a href='<%# Eval("link") %>' target="_blank">
<%# Eval("title") %>
</a>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>
<asp:BoundField DataField="description" HeaderText="Description" />
</Columns>
</asp:GridView>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Collections;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
public partial class ReadRSS : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
BindGrid("http://aspalliance.com/rss.aspx", GridView1,2);
}
public void BindGrid(string strRss, GridView oGrid, int iTable)
{
DataSet oDs = new DataSet();
oDs.ReadXml(strRss);
oGrid.DataSource = oDs.Tables[iTable];
oGrid.DataBind();
}
}