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Source: textBox1

In my search for monitoring my XBOX 360 I stumbled on the blogsite of Lance Robinson and he had an article about “Output any newsgroup as an RSS feed in a half dozen lines of codes”. To get this running you need RSSbus and of course the code from Lance Robinson. RSSBus can turn Anything Into a Feed. Easily create RSS feeds from Databases, Spreadsheets, Emails, Directories, etc.  Use RSS feeds as Simple Web Services to communicate with your partners, vendors, and customers – not just text, but data and services. That sounded cool but RSSBus runs on Windows platforms and requires the Microsoft .NET 2.0 Framework, so that would be a problem for my website running on Linux.

But then I tried if I could use the website of textBox1 for getting other newsgroups than the one given by Lance. And yes it also works for other newsgroups like the Microsoft.public.mom newsgroup. I don’t know if this is a service Lance wants to offer but it works great!

Regards,
Stefan Stranger
http://weblog.stranger.nl

This entry was posted on Friday, November 24th, 2006 at 3:17 pm and is filed under Operations Manager, SharePoint products & Technologies, Virtualization. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.