If you automatically want to show the feed xml instead of the feed content in IE, when viewing a RSS feed.
Disable the “Turn on feed reading view” setting.
Tools > Internet Options > Content > Settings > uncheck “Turn on feed reading view”
(after changing the setting, I had to restart IE)
For developing ODATA services, this can be handy.
Showing the feed: http://www.roelvanlisdonk.nl/?feed=rss2 will result in:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
– <rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/">
– <channel>
<title>Knowledgebase</title>
<atom:link href="http://www.roelvanlisdonk.nl/?feed=rss2" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
<link>http://www.roelvanlisdonk.nl</link>
<description>Blog on Microsoft SharePoint, C#, BI and PowerPivot</description>
<lastBuildDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:03:21 +0000</lastBuildDate>
<language>en</language>
<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0</generator>
– <item>
<title>Showing and styling items in an ASP .NET 4.0 CheckBoxList using CSS and EF4.0</title>
<link>http://www.roelvanlisdonk.nl/?p=1557</link>
<comments>http://www.roelvanlisdonk.nl/?p=1557#comments</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Roel van Lisdonk</dc:creator>
– <category>
– <![CDATA
Normally you would see: