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Connect the RSS web part with a SharePoint list or other advanced feedJanuary 14, 2009 19:26I wrote this blog to give a possible workaround for RSS Web Part problems with certain feeds. Did you ever try to connect a list feed to a SharePoint RSS feed web part? Well, I did, and it doesn’t work. The web part returned me a redirect error on public Internet sites and an authentication problem on secure Intranet sites.  The RSS web part is not able to handle secure RSS connections. After some debugging the problem of the redirect error was found in the fact, that certain RSS feeds are trying to return a cookie, which a web part normally does not accept. Because the cookie is not set, the RSS generator keeps redirecting the download request. The cookie and authentication problems do not only apply to the SharePoint list feed, but also to a lot of other feeds on the internet. The work aroundTo get correct RSS feeds in the standard SharePoint RSS feed web part, I’ve chosen to develop a small “proxy” handler to access the feed in Visual Studio. SPUserPoll – A new SharePoint poll Web Part in townDecember 28, 2008 17:07Today I released my first CodePlex project: the 0.1 version of my poll Web Part. I decided to develop this Web Part to improve my SharePoint skills and to learn more about SharePoint deployment.
The Web Part is called SPUserPoll and it allows site users to quickly create polls anywhere in the Site Collection. The poll Web Part is designed to provide a user friendly interface: Important settings and actions are available from within the Web Part. There is no direct need to work with the SharePoint Web Part setting menu and poll data is managed from normal SharePoint lists. Administrators can manage and keep track of all created polls from a centralized list. |
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