Last night I was creating a sample application to demonstrate how to add OData to an ASP.NET MVC application. Every time I went to the URL in Internet Explorer (IE9) it kept showing the xml with the RSS style sheet.
Here is what you see:
This is not what I want to see. I searched for a couple of hours on how to turn that off and nothing. Finally, this morning I just started diving through the Internet Explorer settings and finally found it.
To force Internet Explorer to display the XML instead of the stylized view do the following:
- Open Tools->Internet Options
- Select the Content tab
- Click the “Settings” button in the Feed and Web slices section
- Uncheck Turn on feed reading view
- Click “OK” to save the settings
Here is what you see know:
This makes it much easier to make sure I am getting what I expected in the xml return. I don’t use any browser for reading my RSS feeds and have always found it annoying that it kept trying to show me the xml in a format I didn’t want to see. Know I see the XML, gravy!