Fetch Gmail Contacts

You Need to follow below steps to fetch a Gmail contacts list & show it in a grid view.

1. Download Google Data API Dlls
2. Extract Google MSI component
3. Implement Code to fetch contacts

Download Google Data API Dlls: Open the below link & click, download Google_Data_API_Setup_1.9.0.0.msi
http://code.google.com/p/google-gdata/downloads/list



Extract Google MSI

Double click the downloaded MSI component & provide the path to extract the code. Usually it will extract into c:\Program file.

To fetch the DLL, go to C:\Program Files\Google\Google Data API SDK\Samples

Implement Code to fetch Contacts

Create a new website

Copy the below dlls from the above sample path & add below dll to your solution

1. Google.GData.Client
2. Google.GData.Contacts
3. Google.GData.Extensions

Add a new webpage to solution & name it "contactlist.aspx". Now add the below grid view to the page

<asp:GridView ID="GridView1" AutoGenerateColumns="true"
runat="server" BackColor="Aquamarine" ForeColor="Black" BorderColor="OrangeRed"
Font-Names="Comic Sans MS" Width="525">
<AlternatingRowStyle BackColor="Aqua" />
<HeaderStyle BackColor="Crimson"
Font-Italic="false" ForeColor="Snow" />
</asp:GridView>

Go to .aspx.cs page and following code & also add following to the class

using Google.GData.Client;
using Google.Contacts;
using Google.GData.Extensions;