ATOM Library for .NET

ATOM Library is a .NET class library for ATOM specification designed to provide you with a reusable object model for writing and parsing ATOM feeds.
Here are some key features of "ATOM Library for .NET":

· Full Implementation of ATOM

Supports versions 0.3 and 1.0 with all constructs.

· Flexible

Reads feeds that do not adhere precisely to the ATOM specification and are loose in their interpretation.

· Development Environment

Complete integration with Visual Studio.NET 2003/Visual Studio 2005/Visual Web Developer.

· Integration with Windows RSS Platform

Reads feeds from Windows Common Feed List.

· No knowledge of XML required

All underlying functions, including parsing, manipulating, and creating XML elements and attributes is handled internally by the library.

· IntelliSense Enabled

Standard listing of properties and methods in Visual Studio.

· 100% Managed Code

The .NET assemblies run inside the .NET CLR (Common Language Runtime).

· DotNet Support

Use in .NET Framework 1.1 and .NET Framework 2.x.

· Use in Multiple Platform

Use in a desktop application, a Web Service or in ASP.NET web page.

· No need to write low level code (socket or TCP).

· No file I/O Code Required

Reading and writing of feed files is easily acccomplished with a single method call on an ATOMFeed object

· Support for Strongly Typed Classes

Generation of strongly typed classes for ATOM feeds including strongly typed channel, items, image, handler based on a ATOM URL or a file.

· Support for reading Password Protected Feeds

Allows reading password protected feeds. The library can parse username and password information from a URL as well as accept credentials as parameters programmatically provided.

· Merge Multiple Feeds

Feed streams can be filtered and merged from a series of existing feeds to create whole new feeds.

· PingBack Support

PingBack is supported as a complete implementation of the PingBack 1.0 protocol specification.

· TrackBack Support

TrackBack is supported as a complete implementation of the TrackBack protocol specification.

· AutoDiscovery Support

AutoDiscovery supported from a LINK tag like: link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="ATOM" href="url/to/rss/file"

· Transform Feeds

Transform feeds from one version to the other on the fly.

· Date Formats

Supports RFC822 and W3C date formats

· Database Helper

Includes a SqlHelper class intended to encapsulate high performance, scalable best practices for common uses of SqlClient when creating dynamic feeds.

· Exception Handling and Logging

An extensive exception handling and logging framework which can log information about a given exception in a log file, the windows event log or send the HTML formatted exception information by email
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