The Windows RSS Platform is an API that enables applications to access and manipulate the Common Feed List, a collection of Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds to which the user has subscribed. Use the Windows RSS Platform in your applications to:

• Subscribe to new feeds, and enumerate existing subscriptions.
• Easily access properties of feeds (channels), feed items, and enclosures.
• Manage and organize feeds into folders.
• Listen for and respond to feed and feed folder events.
• Check the status of the background Feed Download Engine, or modify settings.
• Normalize the XML source of a feed.

The Windows RSS Platform is available with Windows Internet Explorer 7 on Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), Windows Server 2003, and Windows Vista.

In This Library Section

• Using the Windows RSS Platform
• Understanding the Feed Download Engine
• Events in the Windows RSS Platform
• Subscribing to Content with Web Slices 
• ScreenSaver Sample
• Windows RSS Platform Reference