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The finished example:

This sample application reads the RSS feed for Matt Chotin's blog and displays the most recent entries in a DataGrid. When you select one of the entries its description is displayed in a Text control below. If you click on the Read Full Post LinkButton the app opens a browser and displays the post.

Notice how much functionality we get for a relatively small amount of code (below). This is what Flex is all about.

Before you delve into the code we suggest that you take a look at the XML at Matt's feed, here: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mchotin/index.xml. Keep it open in its separate window.

Source code: