ASP.Net 3.5: Step by step guide to creating your own RSS feed reader

Purpose
The purpose of this project is to demonstrate how to create a simple RSS feed reader using an ASPX page.

NOTE: If you are reading from something other than the stream (shown) you may need to try the following to resolve "Illegal Characters In Path" errors:
rssDoc.Load(new StringReader(rssFeed))

<%@ Import Namespace="System" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.IO" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.Xml" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.Net" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.Data" %>
<script runat="server">
Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
	Dim rssStream As Stream
	Dim myRequest As WebRequest = WebRequest.Create("http://www.somesite.com/apage.php?feed=1234")
	myRequest.Method = "GET"
	myRequest.ContentType = "text/xml"
	Try
		Dim myResponse As WebResponse = myRequest.GetResponse()
		rssStream = myResponse.GetResponseStream()
		Dim rssDoc As New XmlDocument()
		rssDoc.Load(rssStream)
		Dim rssItems As XmlNodeList = rssDoc.SelectNodes("rss/channel/item")
		Dim title As String, link As String, description As String
		For X As Integer = 0 TO rssItems.Count - 1
			Try
				title = rssItems.Item(X).SelectSingleNode("title").InnerText
			Catch ex As Exception
				title = ""
			End Try
			Try
				link = rssItems.Item(X).SelectSingleNode("link").InnerText
			Catch ex As Exception
				link = ""
			End Try
			Try
				description = rssItems.Item(X).SelectSingleNode("description").InnerText
			Catch ex As Exception
				description = ""
			End Try
			Response.Write ("Title = " & title & "<br />Link = " & link & "<br />Description = " & description & "<br />")
		Next
	Catch ex As Exception
		Response.Write(ex)
	End Try
End Sub
</script>