A Visual Studio 2012 Windows Store Class Library project to easily generate RSS based applications.

This project enables you to create full-featured RSS application in a very simple way.

• Visual Studio 2012
• An internet connection
• Some very basic knowledge of XAML and C#

• Create a new Blank App (XAML) in Visual Studio.
• Add WinRT-RSS (RssCodeBase) project to the solution.
• In your blank app, add the NuGet reference to MVVM Light
• Add the project reference to RssCodeBase
• Delete the folders Common, ViewModel and the file MainPage.xaml (with MainPage.xaml.cs) from the project.

You are now ready to create your first RSS app ! The only modification you have to do are in App.xaml and App.xaml.cs.

In App.xaml you need to update the xml namespace definition, replace xmlns:vm="clr-namespace:Test.ViewModel" by xmlns:vm="using:AppHero2.ViewModel". This will fix MVVM Light bug with the new using syntax, and use WinRT-RSS ViewModels. You also need to add the common namespace : xmlns:common="using:AppHero2.Common" just under the xmlns:vm line.

In the ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries part of the file, replace the Source attribute by RssCodeBase/Common/StandardStyles.xaml to link to the library styles definition.

Then add the following lines under <vm:ViewModelLocator> definition :

  		<x:String x:Key="AppName">My awesome RSS App !</x:String>

			<common:BooleanToVisibilityConverter x:Key="BooleanToVisibilityConverter" />
			<common:BooleanNegationConverter x:Key="BooleanNegationConverter" />
			<common:BooleanToInvisibilityConverter x:Key="BooleanToInvisibilityConverter" />

			<x:String x:Key="AppTitleImageUri">/Assets/TitleLogo.png</x:String>
			<x:Boolean x:Key="IsAppTitleAnImage">False</x:Boolean>

			<x:String x:Key="AllRss_Title">My awesome RSS App !</x:String>
			<x:String x:Key="AllRss_Group">Tous</x:String>
			<x:Boolean x:Key="AllRss_Enabled">False</x:Boolean>

Want to build now ? We just have to fix the error in App.xaml.cs. As we deleted MainPage.xaml, we have to specify another start page, let's do it !

We replace :

  if (!rootFrame.Navigate(typeof(MainPage), args.Arguments))
  {
    throw new Exception("Failed to create initial page");
  }

by

  object parameter = new RssViewModelInfo()
  {
	  FeedUri = "http://myawesomefeed.com/rss"
	};
	if (!rootFrame.Navigate(typeof(FeedDetails), parameter))
	{
	  throw new Exception("Failed to create initial page");
	}

Without forgetting the using AppHero2.ViewModel; and using AppHero2.Views; lines at the begining of the file ;)

You can test, it should work with that ! Note that the styles are best suited for feeds with some text and at least an image in their content.