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Rss20FeedFormatter Class

A class that serializes a SyndicationFeed instance to and from RSS 2.0 format.

Namespace:  System.ServiceModel.Syndication
Assembly:  System.ServiceModel.Web (in System.ServiceModel.Web.dll)

'Declaration
Public Class Rss20FeedFormatter _
	Inherits SyndicationFeedFormatter _
	Implements IXmlSerializable
'Usage
Dim instance As Rss20FeedFormatter

Use this class to serialize instances of SyndicationFeed and to create instances of SyndicationFeed from XML documents that represent RSS 2.0 feeds. If you have derived a class from SyndicationFeed and want to serialize it, use the Rss20FeedFormatter(Of TSyndicationFeed) formatter.

The following code shows how to create a SyndicationFeed and serialize it to RSS 2.0.

Dim feed As SyndicationFeed = New SyndicationFeed("Test Feed", "This is a test feed", New Uri("http://Contoso/testfeed"), "TestFeedID", DateTime.Now)
Dim item As SyndicationItem = New SyndicationItem("Test Item", "This is the content for Test Item", New Uri("http://Contoso/ItemOne"), "TestItemID", DateTime.Now)

Dim items As List(Of SyndicationItem) = New List(Of SyndicationItem)()
items.Add(item)
feed.Items = items

Dim rssWriter As XmlWriter = XmlWriter.Create("RSS.xml")
Dim rssFormatter As Rss20FeedFormatter = New Rss20FeedFormatter(feed)
rssFormatter.WriteTo(rssWriter)
rssWriter.Close()

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003

The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.5
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