RSS Parsing

The GetFeed, ProcessFeed, and DisplayFeed methods in the preceding listing are wrappers for the methods of a download manager class, named RssHelpers. (See companion source code for details.) Downloading RSS data is pretty easy, as the following code snippet shows:

public static byte[] GetFeed(string url)
{
WebClient req = new WebClient();
try {
return req.DownloadData(url);
}
catch { return null; }
}