Torsten,
Thanks for the great work. My current schedule is to work on RSS Bandit in the latter half of this week with the goal of shipping an RC this weekend.

When I try to restore the program from the Notify Tray it restores behind other programs instead of on top. Is this a bug?

Can you be more specific? What OS do you use, what .NET version incl. SP? On my w2k machine with .NET 1.0 SP2 it works well.

Can add to the Reader the ability to track then post the last DateTime of last item viewed and an ItemCount for user selectable page size. I will need this for my Smart Blogger.

Or user programmable QueryStrings like: ...RSS.aspx?Category=SomeStaticValue&LastViewed={DateTime}&ItemCount={PageSize}
Where the values in {} can be dynamically set.

What do you want to apply? Sounds like you want to blog from within Bandit. If this is the case, you should know that we have planned to support the IBlogThis (http://www.pocketsoap.com/weblog/2003/04/1202.html) and may be the IBlogThisEx/IRSSHandler interface if they have a applicable design.

That sounds nice, but what I want is the ability for the Reader to 'smartly' request RSS entries. For eg.: I last viewed up to 04/05/2003 give me the next 10 items. Then I can ask for the next 10 items after that. Finally, if there is no next 10 items, little bandwidth is used cause an empty RSS Xml is returned. If I want I can page back too.

The underlying internet infrastructure does not provide a way to do what you are asking for. There is no way to partialy request an XML document via HTTP in the manner your asking for without the server or client using some sort of query mechanism.

If you are simply asking that the RSS viewer show you 10 items at a time or show you items within a certain date range that is doable but I'm hesitant to add too much configurability because it may be confusing to end users and problematic to implement.

"underlying internet infrastructure"? Wow, that's putting a limit on things. You saying that no one can provide you with dynamic data? "There is no way...without..." Right, that's the goal. To find smart reader to match a smart server. Providing partial XML for transport from the server is a piece of cake, that's beauty of XML. I was suggesting a flexible way to set these parameters, but I'm sure that a less 'confusing' method could be developed. Ok, I'll just have to show you. Give me alittle time for public demo as my boss has other priorities for me now.

First: each RSS file provider decides about the count of contained items by itself. Often these items are only an extract of the whole story. Usually they do not contain all available but the last x newest entries to get interested readers a clue and informed about the stories. So what should a reader download if only 10 items are there but the user request the 10 items before? How can I tell a normal internet browser to only download the first paragraph of a html page? I think that's meant by "underlying internet infrastructure".
Another point: you assume an "always on" scenario.

Byron: can you answer the questions in my 3. comment, please? And: which version of RSS Bandit you have considered the problem?

Sorry, somehow I didn't see #3. I'm using W2k .Net 1.0 sp2 and .Net 1.1. And I've had problems with all betas but less problems with beta 4. Under XP I have another problem: no text for the buttons.

Less problems means: now it works as expected...? The XP problem: our installed .exe.manifest (binary folder) should enable the usage of the common controls v6, but generates also your problem. Solution: delete (or rename) the .exe.manifest file.

less problems as in: it still pops up behind other windows, but sometimes(rare) it doesn't. Before Beta4 it always, popped up behind other programs.

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