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Here it is, my first plugin, still in beta so I really need your feedback
I searched for a long time a rss feeder program that would be really integrated to windows xp, but I didn't find any. Then I discovered Messenger Plus and his API, so I decided to make my own.
This plugin is very easy to use : just indicate url and delay between each check in the configure panel, and that's all. Each time the rss feed is changed, the plugin will display a notification toast with the rss's title property, and a link to the rss's link property.
For now two commands are recognized :
/xrssremind
which display the last displayed notification.

/xrsshistory <name of the rss feed>
which display history of the rss feed
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Rssplug 0.3 is now available

Download Rssplug Beta 0.3


CHANGELOG
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V 0.3 (07/08/05)
- Removed the status change when displaying a notification
- Added history logging
- Added /xrsshistory command
- Added some debug informations for easier bug fixing
- Added automatic check for update
- Configuration file is now stored in a xml file to provide ascendant compatibility

V 0.2.2 (16/02/05)
- Fixed "active =-1" error message (I hope so)

V 0.2.1 (19/01/05)
- Fixed error message when adding a new rss feed
- Fixed missing delay when double-clicking on an item in configuration screen
- Fixed /xrssremind command

V 0.2 (19/01/05)
- Added multiple rss support
- Configuration is now saved in a file (instead of registry like previous version)
- Notification is disabled when status is "away"

V 0.1 (12/11/04)
- First released version

The server hosting the previous versions is temporary unavailable.

Download Rssplug Beta 0.2.2

Download Rssplug Beta 0.2.1

Download Rssplug Beta 0.1



This plugin use the excellent library rss.net : http://www.rssdotnet.com/

I don't know what a rss feeder is exactly, could you please explain exactly what it is and what it does? I might download it then if it sounds usefull to me.

I'll make an exemple. Imagine that you are someone who regulary check yahoo's news : http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=index&cid=716
But you are bored to reload the page every five minutes to see if there is a change. Then juste take a rss feeder program, and configure it to check this url : http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/topstories  , which is the rss feed of the news page. Then each time there is a change, the rss feeder program will inform you, so you can go and see the news

Sounds like an execellent idea. Never used rss feeds before, but I think I'm gonna like this one.

Can you also add a fuction that it only display toast when for example I'm logged in @ msn and that it is disabled with all the other accounts, like my little brothers account?

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Installed it. It's not in the plugin list. I think you need to check the installer

Sounds interesting. I don't use any of those sites though so it wouldn't be useful to me, hehe.

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Originally posted by Jaguar
Sounds interesting. I don't use any of those sites though so it wouldn't be useful to me, hehe.

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I think that you can use any url for it..

It sounds good, does this mean that it may also be able to check such sites as gmail?

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Originally posted by traxor

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Originally posted by Jaguar
Sounds interesting. I don't use any of those sites though so it wouldn't be useful to me, hehe.

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I think that you can use any url for it..

It sounds good, does this mean that it may also be able to check such sites as gmail?

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only if they have a RSS feed a RSS feed is different from a normal webpage its like a whole bunch of xml insted of html and other stuff
eg
RSS page for popular del.icio.us http://del.icio.us/rss/popular/
then the popular del.icio.us page http://del.icio.us/popular/

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Originally posted by Markus
EDIT:

Installed it. It's not in the plugin list. I think you need to check the installer 

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As I said it won't work for me. Can somebody also try to install it?

yea the installer places the dlls into the msgplus folder
Rssplug.dll
RSS.NET.dll
interrop.MessengerAPI.dll

and your reg settings were put in correctly (well so it seems) so im clueless to what it could be maby a bad compile?

The plugin had been created in vb.net, so it need regasm registration. It seems that the installer doesn't  do that step (I couldn't test it since my dll are already registered...). Well, I think I'll have to create my own installer....

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Can someone try to register dll files with regasm and then tell me if it works ? One of my contact told me he don't see RssPlug in the plugin list, even if it works perfectly on my computer. I really don't understand