BlogWrite project

Work In Progress.

This project was originally started as a C#/WPF port of a blog editing client called "BlogWrite" developed in Delphi language. Currently, there are two apps called "FeedDesk" and "BlogDesk" developed in C#/WinUI3 and both use the same core source code. This is a source code only repo.

FeedDesk

A desktop feed reader. (work in progress)

Download app

from Microsoft Store.

Features

Implements following formats

• Atom 0.3
• The Atom Syndication Format (Atom 1.0)
• RDF Site Summary (RSS 1.0)
• Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)

Supported extentions

• media
• hatena
• dc
• iTunes

Other features:

• Feed Autodiscovery.
• OPML import, export.
• Display enclosed or embeded images.
• Podcasts audio and in-app playback.

Screenshots

Contributing

Feel free to open issues and send PRs.

Technologies, Frameworks, Libraries

• .NET 6
• WinUI3 (Windows App SDK)
• Community Toolkit
• WinUIEx
• SQLite (System.Data.SQLite)

Getting Started

Requirements

• Windows 10.0.19041.0 or higher

Building

1. Visual Studio 2022 with support for .NET Desktop App UI development (and optionally .NET Universal App development)
2. Clone this repository
3. Open solution in Visual Studio
4. Select FeedDesk project, then compile and run.

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BlogDesk

A desktop blogging client. (under development)

Features

Implements following formats, protocols & APIs

• The Atom Publishing Protocol
• XML-RPC API (Blogger API, MetaWeblog API, MovableType API, and WordPress API)

Screenshots

N/A

Technologies, Frameworks, Libraries

• .NET 6
• WinUI3 (Windows App SDK)
• Community Toolkit
• WinUIEx
• WebView2