c# - Building a Comic strip RSS reader - feeds won't show

Question

I went through this guy's tutorial to build an RSS reader in the hopes of converting it to a comic strip reader, but when I try to do so, the app never works the way I want it to.

The app in it's current state has an item's page with items that lead to a split page which displays blogs from the feed the tutorial provides, but when I try and use my own feeds the app displays an empty items page tile and the split page behind it shows nothing but "Author, pub date, link, categories" stacked in the centre of the screen.

What I want to have happen is to have the app launch to the split screen directly and display these comic strips, but I'm not sure how to make it happen...

Cheers.

Answer 1

You might be fetching data from wrong RSS URL. Follow these steps

1. Download this blog reader sample

2. That link will open FeedData.cs file. See that & do the changes in downloaded project. Go to GetFeedsAsync() method definition. It contains all the RSS channels.

3. Replace all http://blogs.windows.com/bla-bla-bla RSS URLs with theses URLs.

   • Most Popular : http://feed.dilbert.com/dilbert/most_popular

   • Strips : http://feed.dilbert.com/dilbert/daily_strip

   • Blog : http://feed.dilbert.com/dilbert/blog

   • Mashup : http://feed.dilbert.com/dilbert/mashups

4. That's it. Now run the app, by selecting WindowsBlogReader project as startup project.