RSS: Feed Generator & Aggregator

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Nov 062011

Nope, its not Digvijay Singh’s RSS! Here RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication”, which helps content publishers such as bloggers to sync up their latest updates with their readers.

Here you need 2 things, a RSS feed generator, which generates feeds for latest contents and an aggregator, which catches up the generated feeds. There are many free examples of these two programs. Most of you might have heard about “Google Reader”, which is (in simple terms) RSS aggregator. Even your old friend “Outlook” can work as aggregator.

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Next week, I am planning for writing a custom plain RSS feed generator and aggregator (web & intranet based) for my office portals. Will post whether I succeeded in that or not. Meanwhile, you can check out the below articles on RSS aggregator/Generator:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_feed_aggregators

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/06/02/which-feed-reader-is-best-problogger-readers-have-their-say/

Posted by Ankit at 2:12 pm

Cleaner Approach for fetching AppSettings

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Oct 082011

Yup, I agree! there are many coding styles to fetch the AppSettings from Config files but last week I came across to a diligent code (forgot the source), which I want to share. Although there is nothing great about it but I liked its simplicity. (Keep your expectation low from this post if you were looking for some thing extraordinary). And here it is:

private static string GetRequiredAppSetting(string key)
    {
        string value = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[key];
        if (null == value) throw new ApplicationException("Please configure an <appSetting> for " + key);
        return key;
    }

Posted by Ankit at 2:40 pm Tagged with: ,

Back to basics: Website Vs WebApp

ASP.NET No Responses »
Aug 122011

Well I am back on my blog… so hope few more post in coming days. Got one decent article on the one of the basic questions on VS “Whats the diff. b/w Website and Web App”. Here is the link of the post. Although the post is pretty old but its carrying lot of info/experience [ more.....]

Posted by Ankit at 12:52 am Tagged with:

TechEd on the Road

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May 242011
TechEd on the Road

Last sunday, I attended “TechEd on the Road”. I went there for Pinal Dave’s session, but thanks to time-mismanagement of organisers I missed almost the whole session. Somehow managed to hear him for the last 10 minutes. But wait! that’s not over. I was able to get the feel of passion and knowledge of “SQLAuthority”. [ more.....]

Posted by Ankit at 12:11 am Tagged with: ,

SQL Server – Denali

App Update, SQL No Responses »
May 162011
SQL Server - Denali

The next Version of SQL Server, Code-named as Denali is already in CTP stage. You can download it from here. You can also register for the notification for next CTP release here I have just started working on it and first thing which I liked about it was The VS2010-liked Tabs in Management Studio . [ more.....]

Posted by Ankit at 11:52 pm Tagged with: ,
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