How to get Contact Address from Email Address Book..

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hey all..
i am trying a new kinda a approach n developing a social networking application in c#.net(can even work around VB.net).. It sounds weird but z working great..

I am stuck at the part of downloading the email address contact of the users...
So i wanna know how could i retrieve the contacts detail from address book of an email.. Of-course knowing the PASSWORD and ID.. So my intention is non malicious...

I know i may have to use some scripts for that.. If that's a compulsion, please tell about the script, vl add it and link it to the application..

i will highly appreciate any help...
Thanx..

Posted 20-Apr-10 5:43am

pratik1712

Updated 21-Apr-10 20:25pm

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Michel Godfroid · Answer 1 · 2010-04-21T22:16:00

Solution 3

Email systems don't have contact information. They're just ...email systems.
from which program do you want to extract contacts? Outlook? Outlook express? Windows contacts? Exchange server? GMail? Windows Live? MobileMe?
Apple contact manager?

Posted 21-Apr-10 22:16pm

Michel Godfroid

Rama Krishna Vavilala · Answer 2 · 2010-04-24T01:50:00

Solution 6

Here are the APIs you need to use:

GMail : http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/[^]

Windows Live (Hotmail) : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb463989.aspx[^]

Yahoo: http://developer.yahoo.com/social/contacts/[^]

Posted 24-Apr-10 1:50am

Rama Krishna Vavilala

pratik1712 · Answer 3 · 2010-04-21T20:23:00

@Richard MacCutchan

This would be hacking if i would ask for address without user's password.. it is simple importing contacts from mail as it happens in other social networking sites.. i will be asking the passwords from the users for importing.. So don't blame my intentions.. please provide an answers..

pratik1712 · Answer 4 · 2010-04-23T23:57:00

Solution 4

@Michel

It would be sufficient if i can extract contacts from Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail kinda mail provider.. coz most of the users will be having these accounts...
thanx a lot for your help.. Hoping for a reply soonn

Posted 23-Apr-10 23:57pm