Community RSS Design

To implement the RSS feed we will follow the design of the community web service. As covered earlier in the book, a single page, communityService.asmx, contains the community web service logic. The HttpModule will populate a SectionInfo object based on the request path and rewrite the request path to point to the service page. Consider:

http://server/CommunityStarterKit/Events/communityService.asmx

And:

http://server/CommunityStarterKit/Downloads/communityService.asmx

Both these requests arrive at the same ASMX file, but with different SectionInfo objects in the Context collection. The web service then retrieves the SectionInfo object to produce the appropriate response.

Also there are two classes in the communityService.asmx code-behind file that we can utilize:

• ServiceResponseInfo

• ServiceResponseInfoItem

The first class represents the response we send to a service, and has member properties—such as ServiceTitle and ServiceDescription— that can be used to populate...