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by Doug Thews.
Original Post: Displaying Recent Blog Entries in FrontPage
Feed Title: IlluminatiLand
Feed URL: http://apps5.oingo.com/apps/domainpark/domainpark.cgi?client=netw8744&s=JETBRAINS.COM
Feed Description: A technology blog for people enlightened enough to think for themselves
I was working on my personal FrontPage web the other day and thought that it would be nice to show the last 'n' number of entries in my blog on my front page. I'd do this by reading my own RSS feed and posting a set of links (ordered by date).
Well, after doing a lot of digging and posting on the FrontPage newsgroups I found out there was no clean solution (IMHO). I could:
1. Change my entire page over to an ASPX page and then put the code in (which would invalidate any FrontPage components that I already had on my page).
2. Build a FrontPage component myself. Unfortunately, it would have to be a COM component, and the add-in process would be kind of wacky.
3. Take the easy way out and create an IFRAME on my web page that pointed to an ASPX page that just displayed the results (WHICH IS WHAT I DID).
So, I took the easy way out - but it does work. I created a simple ASP.NET page that lists the top 'n' entries from an RSS feed inside a blank table. The entries are ordered by date. The ASPX page accepts querystring parameters for the RSS Feed Url, the Count of entries to display, and the Maximum Width of each line (so that the resulting line width can fit within your page's design).
If anyone wants the ASP.NET source code, you can get it here.
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