I’ve downloaded this app from Code Project last night, and so I thought I would use it to make a post. Here’s a snippent of the what the app does.

RSS Feeder.NET is a free open source desktop RSS feed aggregator which downloads feeds from web sources and stores them locally for offline viewing, searching and processing. It is also a rich blogging tool which you can use to blog a variety of blog engines including WordPress, B2Evolution, .Text, Community Server etc. You can be fully MS Outlook® dependent or can run fully standalone. You can also use both at the same time whichever you find comfortable to work with. It does not increase the Outlook load time, nor does it make the Outlook slow or prevent it from closing properly. It is a Smart Client that makes best use of both Local Resource and Distributed Web Information sources.

I’m building a smart client of my own, and I hope this will be a decent example to follow. I am still going with the Compsite UI Application Block (CAB), so we’ll see if I can integrate what I learn from RSS Feeder.NET and what I have been doing with CAB for the last six months.

Also, I will look to improve this app so that I can use it to post to SurplusMeat without having to use a web browser. A very good feature set has already been implemented, but I think I have a few more ideas on how to improve it (spell check, live preview, post to multiple blogs).