Discover for yourself the powerful and extensible .NET web content syndication framework for RSS, Atom, OPML, APML, BlogML, RSD and more.

The Trackback technical specification describes a communication framework that allows web content authors to notify external web sites that they have authored content that refers to that sites content. Through the process of sending pings, web sites can be explicitly notified that some portion of the content they are hosting has been referred to by an external source. This peer-to-peer notification is typically used by web logs to send and receive this kind of notification to their peers. In the Trackback system, the URL that receives Trackback pings is the Trackback Ping URL. To send a Trackback ping, the client makes a standard HTTP request to the server, and receives a response in a simple XML format. When implementing the Trackback specification, developers must then provide both a means of sending a properly formatted Trackback ping request, and a server hosted endpoint that Trackback pings can be sent to. Within the Argotic Syndication Framework, both the transmission and reception of Trackback information has been implemented in such a way that developers must perform a minimum amount of work in order to enable Trackback support within their applications.

This release provides ASP.NET developers with built-in support for some of the most common syndication features web sites utilize when publishing syndicated content. The framework now provides both server and client support of the Pingback and Trackback peer-to-peer notification protocols, as well as server and client support for the XML-RPC communication protocol. Several ASP.NET web controls have been provided to make implementing automatic discovery of Pingback, Trackback, and syndication feeds a simple and pain-free process.

This release is the start of a big focus on making life easier for ASP.NET developers. Starting with this release, the framework will include web controls and services that make the addition of syndicated content in your ASP.NET web applications quick and easy to implement.

The 2007.1 version of the Argotic Syndication Framework has been released. This release offers a number of new features, including asynchronous retrieval of syndication resources, support for legacy syndication formats, simplified detection and inclusion of syndication extensions, a format agnostic means of retrieving syndication feed information, and an overall improvement to the framework namespace organization and performance.

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