How to create own link to blog's RSS feed

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Alex Crome replied on Tue, Aug 26 2008 5:44 PM

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For a chameleon control try

<CSBlog:WeblogData runat="server" Property="Name" LinkTo="Rss" />

To obtain the URL programatically, have a look at the BlogUrls class (I think it's in CommunityServer.Blogs.Components, but don't hold me to that.  It's definitly somewhere in CommunityServer.Blogs though)

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Alex Crome replied on Wed, Aug 27 2008 4:47 AM

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Why are you using reflectof for the parts of the CommunityServer.Blogs - the Source code for those is freely available in the SDK.

I've copied the folowing code from the WeblogData control, for the control is set to Link To the RSS feed.  There's probably more going on there than you need but it's easier to filter out stuff you don't need than to add stuff that you do need in

if (weblog.EnableRss)
{
 if (weblog.Hub != null)
 {
  if (Permissions.ValidatePermissions(weblog, Permission.View, Users.GetAnonymousUser(true)))
  {
   link = new HyperLink();
   link.NavigateUrl = BlogUrls.Instance().HubRss(weblog.Hub.ApplicationKey);
   string autoDiscoveryTitle = string.Format("{0} - {1}", weblog.Hub.Name, ResourceManager.GetString("Button_Weblog"));
   Head.AddRssAutoDiscovery(autoDiscoveryTitle, link.NavigateUrl, this.Context);
  }
  else if (!csContext.User.IsAnonymous && csContext.SiteSettings.EnableSecureSyndication)
  {
   link = new HyperLink();
   link.NavigateUrl = SiteUrls.FormatUrlWithUserNameToken(BlogUrls.Instance().HubRss(weblog.Hub.ApplicationKey), csContext.User);
   string autoDiscoveryTitle = string.Format("{0} - {1}", weblog.Hub.Name, ResourceManager.GetString("Button_Weblog"));
   Head.AddRssAutoDiscovery(autoDiscoveryTitle, link.NavigateUrl, this.Context);
  }
  else
   this.AutomatedVisible = false;
 }
 else if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(weblog.ExternalFeedUrl))
 {
  link = new HyperLink();
  link.NavigateUrl = weblog.ExternalFeedUrl;
 }
 else if (Permissions.ValidatePermissions(weblog, Permission.View, Users.GetAnonymousUser(true)))
 {
  link = new HyperLink();
  link.NavigateUrl = BlogUrls.Instance().Rss(weblog.ApplicationKey);
 }
 else if (csContext.SiteSettings.EnableSecureSyndication)
 {
  link = new HyperLink();
  link.NavigateUrl = SiteUrls.FormatUrlWithUserNameToken(BlogUrls.Instance().Rss(weblog.ApplicationKey), csContext.User);
 }
 else
  this.AutomatedVisible = false;
}
else
 this.AutomatedVisible = false;