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":

Supports versions 0.3 and 1.0 with all constructs.

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

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

Reads feeds from Windows Common Feed List.

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

Standard listing of properties and methods in Visual Studio.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Supports RFC822 and W3C date formats

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

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

Limitations:

· 20 days trial