I am proud to announce the latest release of the Argotic Syndication Framework. 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.
New features for this release:
- Server-side implementation of the Pingback peer-to-peer notification communication protocol.
- Client-side implementation of the Pingback peer-to-peer notification communication protocol.
- ASP.NET web control to specify Pingback auto-discovery information.
- ASP.NET HTTP module to globally specify Pingback communication end-point.
- Server-side implementation of the Trackback peer-to-peer notification communication protocol.
- Client-side implementation of the Trackback peer-to-peer notification communication protocol.
- ASP.NET web control to specify Trackback auto-discovery information.
- Server-side implementation of the XML-RPC communication protocol.
- Client-side implementation of the XML-RPC communication protocol.
- ASP.NET web control to enable automatic discovery of syndicated content by web browsers.
- Really Simple Discovery (RSD) support added to syndication HTTP handler.
This project would not be possible with all of the feedback provided by the end-users, and as always if you are interested in contributing to this project please feel free to contact the team.
Download the 2007.3 release of the framework.
The Argotic Syndication Framework is a Microsoft .NET class library framework that enables developers to easily consume and generate web content syndication services from within their own applications. The framework makes reading and writing syndication data sources in common formats such as RSS, Atom, OPML, etc. simple while still remaining powerful enough to handle the myriad of syndication extensions commonly in use today. Argotic: Enabling developers to grok web content syndication.
Overview of framework features:
- Easily consume and/or generate syndicated content from within .NET client and web applications.
- Supports consumption and inclusion of 18 of the most common specifications used to extend syndicated content.
- Implements an extensible syndication extension model that allows users to easily develop their own integrated syndication extensions.
- Supports asynchronous consumption of syndicated content resources.
- Automatic detection of syndication extensions utilized by syndication resources.
- Supports consumption of secure/authentication restricted syndication resources.
- Provides a format agnostic means of consuming syndication feeds.
- Supports HTTP 1.0/1.1 conditional GET retrieval of syndication resources to reduce bandwidth usage.
- Implements a provider model that provides a uniform interface between syndication services and data sources, allowing users to choose almost any storage media.
- Supports auto-discovery of syndicated content being broadcast by web resources.
- Configurable syndication HTTP handler that makes serving Atom, OPML, and RSS syndicated content simple to implement in ASP.NET applications.
- Configurable syndication HTTP handlers and factories that make implementing Pingback, Trackback, and XML-RPC based services simple.
- ASP.NET web controls that allow developers to add automatic discovery of Pingback, Trackback, and syndication feeds within their web applications.
- Designed to be callable from partially trusted code.
The framework provides full implementations of the following syndication formats:
The framework is capable of consuming the following legacy syndication formats:
Server and client implementations of the following peer-to-peer notification and communication protocols:
The framework provides full implementations of the following commonly used syndication extensions:
Framework Code Metrics:
| Assembly Name |
Maintainability Index |
Cyclomatic Complexity |
Depth of Inheritance |
Class Coupling |
Lines of Code |
| Argotic.Common |
71 |
547 |
2 |
73 |
1,620 |
| Argotic.Core |
72 |
7,665 |
4 |
345 |
21,428 |
| Argotic.Extensions |
73 |
2,960 |
2 |
107 |
8,272 |
| Totals |
|
|
|
|
31,320 |
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