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Welcome to the ZanNews wiki page!

ZanNews is a news agregator, written in C#, which is small and easy to use. It reads the RSS pages written in XML.

The main features of ZanNews are:

1. Reads any news source, as long as the path to the RSS file is supplied;
2. Provides the user with two choices for news sources: either the ones he chooses or news sources from a default, non-editable library with lots of news sources, from 10 different domains;
3. Gives the user the possibility to skip news sources he does not want to use (only available from the set of the news he enters);
4. Add, edit, reorder and delete news sources (from those entered by the user);
5. 6 options from 3 categories, for a higher customization of the program.

Before getting started, you must know how ZanNews handles its news sources. You can do that here.

The main window program is shown in the following picture:

The main window has three distinct parts:

1. The main menu. It is discussed here;
2. The grid with the downloaded news. In this grid will be shown all the downloaded news, no matter their type. To access a news, click on it and it will be shown in the browser on the right. The grid has three columns:
   1. The news source;
   2. The news title;
   3. The news description.
3. The browser. The browser will display the selected news, for the user to read.

The lower part of the main window has a status bar with some helping text and a download bar, to see the progress of the download.