Contacts Reader .NET is a library written to retrieve/import the contact lists/address book directly from an mail client websites using user's credentials. This library uses the same step as you export your contact list through web mail client. It is developed in the way to adopt many changes.

Contacts Importer or Address Book Grabber can Import contacts from yahoo, hotmail, aol, msn.com, Microsoft outlook and Outlook Express. Now this is available in PHP and .Net. C# was used to develop .Net component.

The main purpose is to create a snapshot of a web page with URL. You can set image dimensions and save the image in BMP, Jpeg, GIF and PNG image formats. Also the component gets additional info about the page like Title, its text, links on the page, e-mails, HTML code, real URL. The samples included in the distribution file will let you start creating your own projects immediately. One of the samples is the Spider application developed on C#, VB 6.0 and VBScript. It creates a database of screenshots of spidered pages that can be used in Search Engine sample (ASP, ASP.NET C#). Also Enterprise Edition will include complete source code that let you host the component on any servers.

Components works as follows:
The method GetWebPage has two parameters related to a web page, namely window dimension and URL. The method creates an instance of Internet Explorer, then opens a web page, makes a snapshot and destroys the instance of Internet Explorer. After the execution of the method, it is possible to save the snapshot to a file and retrieve additional information about the page like its title, real URL (since redirects are possible) and the text content. All these operations are performed transparently for the user without any visible activity.

Since the browser control is performed through the component, the interaction with the user should come to naught. It?s reached as follows

Address book import from Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail and MSN accounts is now available for .NET applications.
The contacts importer is written in Visual Basic .NET and it can be used in any .NET Windows or ASP.NET application through a class library (in case you are using a different .NET language than VB.NET) or VB.NET code

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