This is what I use for my wordpress feed reader.
private async void ReadFeed() { var rssFeed = new Uri("http://truestrengthmd.com/category/blog/feed"); var request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(rssFeed); request.Method = "GET"; var _response = await request.GetResponseAsync(); var response = (HttpWebResponse)_response; using (var reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream())) { var feedContents = reader.ReadToEnd(); var document = XDocument.Parse(feedContents); var posts = (from p in document.Descendants("item") select new { Title = p.Element("title").Value }).ToList(); foreach (var post in posts) { Debug.WriteLine(post.Title); } }}