Windows 8 RSS Reader

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Speaking about it at Microsoft Gulf Windows 8 Dev Camp



This app has been featured in
Metro-Weekly Issue #9 by csell5

Windows8Freeware.com

Blogged Metro RSS Reader: Free and open source Metro Application for Windows 8

Project Description
A RSS Feed Reader Window 8 Style App

This source code is written in C# and XAML and uses the Visual Studio Grid Layout template.


Features

v10

• Extended Splash Screen

• Passes all Windows ACK tests

v9

• All Items view shows top items from Categories view, Search fixed to include Categories view and have wrapped grid layout like rest of the app

v8

• Show/Hide and remove categories from the Settings Charm

v7

• Updated for Windows 8 Release Preview

v6

• Changed background and foreground colors

• Used VariableSizeGrid layout to wrap blog posts with images

• Sort items with Images first, text-only last

• Enabled Caching to improve navigation between frames

v5

• All Items and Categories group view
• Search capability via Charms

v4

• Clicking on any search result throws an error after navigation back to main view - fixed

• Clicked item from search filter is not shown in details view - fixed

• Filter is not maintained in the details view - fixed

v3

• Read more link on the details view
• Search and filter within posts

v2

• Share via Charm to 'Mail' or any app that supports sharing (see screenshots below)

v1

• Reads a RSS or Atom feed on launch
• Click to navigate to detail of a item
• App bar for changing default Feed URL

Known Issues and Limitations

• Frame titles disappear in snapped view

The main APIs are

• Windows.Web.Syndication
• Windows.Storage

Some XAML controls that it uses are

• Grid view
• List view
• Flip view
• Scroll viewer
• Rich text columns
• VariableSizeWrapGrid

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Submitted by Zubair