winappkits/XPlatformCloudKit — pull request #21 by roschler (2013-11-19 14:34:14+00:00)
Title: Added remote RSS source capability (please read notes)

Note, I have left the AppSettings variables related to RSS and remote RSS in the state necessary for easy testing. Reset them to what is best for public consumption after you test this update and merge it into the master.

This version adds remote RSS source list capability. There is a new AppSettings variable called RemoteRssSourceUrl. If it is not empty and EnableRssServce is TRUE, then the text file referenced by the URL will be retrieved from the host server. The RSS feeds listed in that text file will be added to the list in RssAddressCollection. This allows you to add/remove RSS feeds dynamically to your app simply by altering the contents of the publicly accessible web file. When run from the debugger a date/time argument is added to the URL contained in RemoteRssSourceUrl, to stop the Windows Phone emulator and other caching entities from caching the remote request, so you always get the freshest contents when working in the Visual IDE/debugger. See the notes in code for further details.