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Windows RSS Platform API complete


I won't have time to check out IE7 beta 3 and the final Feeds API until this weekend, but I'm happy to see that Microsoft addressed my number one complaint, which was:
Support feed and item ids. The item.id property does not reflect the RSS <guid> or Atom <id> of the item/entry in the original feed. Plus, it's an integer -- not the right type for a URN. If you want to get the actual feed or item/entry id you have to parse the XML. Make it easy to get the real id if there is one.
And in Walter vonKoch's list, you can see that they fixed the problem:
5. Added FeedItem.Guid to reflect xml element <atom:id> or <guid>

7.3 Renamed Feed.Id to Feed.LocalId

7.4 Renamed FeedItem.Id to FeedItem.LocalId
In doing that they broke some code in my book (I'll fix the examples download this weekend), but I can't really complain about that.

Plus, check out Walter on MSDN TV talking about the RSS in IE7.
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