Read feeds with System.ServiceModel.Syndication

There are plenty of RSS/Atom libraries for .NET.

You can also use the System.ServiceModel.Syndication which is part of the .NET framework.

A Simple Feed Reader

using System;
using System.ServiceModel.Syndication;
using System.Xml;

namespace SimpleFeed
{
    public static class FeedReader
    {
        public static SyndicationFeed LoadFrom(String url)
        {
            if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(url))
                throw new ArgumentNullException();

            using (var r = new XmlTextReader(url))
            {
                return SyndicationFeed.Load(r);
            }
        }
    }
}

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