Friday, 4 July 2014

Creating a simple RSS reader for Windows Phone 8


First Method:

Steps:

1 - Open Microsoft Visual Studio Blend 2013 and click on new project. Select XAML (store apps) and from the list select Blank App (Windows Phone Silverlight) and click ok.

2 – From the tools menu drag and drop the button.

3 – Click on projects, click on your project name and right click the mouse button and select add new item and select 'Windows Phone Portrait Page' and click ok.  

4 – On the right side of the screen select Data and click on the first upper left ‘+’ icon and click on the ‘Import Sample Data From XAML’.

5 – Open any site which has the ‘RSS feed’ unable and copy the Url address from that site and paste in the Url option and click ok.

6 – On the right side drag and drop the ‘itemCollection’ on the page.

7 – Double click on the ‘MainPage.xaml’ from the project solution on the left side and select button. Right click the mouse while the button is being selected.

8 – From the options given select the Navigate To and you see the page you just created and select it.


9 – Save the project and compile it. 

Second Method:


Let’s create a new project and the first thing that we will do is to add a C# class for the RSS Item . We will need to set this up in order to use it and bind it in the next steps , so our class will be like this :

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We will move now to the XAML code and add a listbox :

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We will move now to the code behind , we will add an event in the Constructor in the load of the first page :
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We will code now the event we already added :
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Save and run your application now and see the feeds coming from the XML File to the listbox in XAML .

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