Exposes methods that provide access to the Common Feed List, which is a hierarchy of Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds to which the user is subscribed.

Members Table

The following table lists the members exposed by the FeedsManager object.

Methods

Method	Description
AsyncSyncAll	Forces an update of all feeds.
BackgroundSync	Controls the behavior of Feed Download Engine.
DeleteFeed	Deletes a feed.
DeleteFolder	Deletes a feed folder.
ExistsFeed	Checks whether the feed exists.
ExistsFolder	Checks whether a feed folder exists.
GetFeed	Retrieves a feed from its path.
GetFeedByUrl	Retrieves a feed by its URL.
GetFolder	Retrieves a folder from its path.
IsSubscribed	Determines if the URL is in the system subscription store.
Normalize	Transforms the XML of the feed into the standard format.

Properties

Property	Description
BackgroundSyncStatus	Retrieves the background Feed Download Engine status.
DefaultInterval	Sets or retrieves the default update interval for feeds.
ItemCountLimit	Retrieves the system-defined limit of items retained for feeds.
RootFolder	Retrieves the root subscription folder.

Remarks

This is the top-level object in the Windows RSS Platform. To create the object in C/C++, call CoCreateInstance setting the CLSID parameter to CLSID_FeedsManager. For scripting, call CreateObject with the ProgID Microsoft.FeedsManager.

The FeedsManager object is light-weight and is designed to be created when necessary; caching an object reference is not necessary.

See Also

Feed, FeedFolder, FeedItem