Need help with reading RSS feed from SSIS

Question

Hi all,
I am trying to read RSS feed from SSIS by using the Script Component. So far I am able to read some information from the RSS feed from the following items included in the code, Title, PublishDate, LastUpdateTime, Id and Summary.
There are still more item but I am unable to identify the proper data type for the following:
//Output0Buffer.Description = item.Content;
//Output0Buffer.Category = item.Categories;
//Output0Buffer.Comments = item.Summary;
//Output0Buffer.Source = item.SourceFeed;
When I define the data for item.Content as Unicode String in the column properties for the Output column I get the following error message:
Error 1 Cannot implicitly convert type 'System.ServiceModel.Syndication.SyndicationContent' to 'string'
And the same error for the other three variables.
I am using HTTP Connection manager to read the xml link.
I tried to google around for some help but I could not find more information about the datatype.
I appreciate any help if someone can point me to the right solution for reading RSS feed from SSIS.
Code:
/* Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services Script Component
* Write scripts using Microsoft Visual C# 2008.
* ScriptMain is the entry point class of the script.*/
using System;
using System.Data;
using Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Pipeline.Wrapper;
using Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.Wrapper;
using System.ServiceModel.Syndication;
using System.Xml;
using System.Text;
[Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Pipeline.SSISScriptComponentEntryPointAttribute]
public class ScriptMain : UserComponent
private string url = string.Empty;
private SyndicationFeed feed = null;
private XmlReader reader = null;
public override void PreExecute()
base.PreExecute();
// Get the URL from the Http Connection Manager.
// Note, we're not actually using the connection manager's connection object,
// just it's URL setting. This is because using the .NET connection classes
// give us more flexibility.
reader = XmlReader.Create(Connections.HttpConnection.ConnectionString);
feed = SyndicationFeed.Load(reader);
public override void PostExecute()
base.PostExecute();
reader.Close();
public override void CreateNewOutputRows()
if (feed != null)
foreach (var item in feed.Items)
Output0Buffer.AddRow();
Output0Buffer.Title = item.Title.Text;
Output0Buffer.PublishDate = item.PublishDate;
Output0Buffer.LastUpdatedTime = item.LastUpdatedTime;
Output0Buffer.Link = item.Id;
//Output0Buffer.Description = item.Content;
//Output0Buffer.Category = item.Categories;
//Output0Buffer.Comments = item.Summary;
//Output0Buffer.Source = item.SourceFeed;
Output0Buffer.FeedImage.AddBlobData(ConvertToBytes(item.Summary));
string authorName = string.Empty;
if (item.Authors.Count > 0)
// take the first author
authorName = item.Authors[0].Name;
Output0Buffer.Author = authorName;
Output0Buffer.SetEndOfRowset();
private byte[] ConvertToBytes(TextSyndicationContent content)
if (content != null && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(content.Text))
// convert the string buffer to UTF8 so we can store it in an NTEXT column
var encoding = new UTF8Encoding();
return encoding.GetBytes(content.Text);
return new byte[0];
Thanks in return.

Answer 1

You need to make it running outside SSIS 1st. I just do not see why you need to publish it here at the moment.
And to solve it, doesn't C# has the
VAR datatype so you do not have to guess.
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