ASP.NET: Import Gmail Contacts

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Feb 25, 2013

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ASP.NET: Import Gmail Contacts

Introduction

Most of the time our clients need to use their email contacts from their application, they believe in the good application which reduces their effort to go other websites, they know everything can not be possible to implement but not impossible, so here requirement comes to implement a section to import contacts from Gmail and send email to the selected email id from the asp.net application.

A good application is one who can complete your all or maximum work from one browser window or from one application.

I tried here to describe "Import Gmail contacts in ASP.NET". Hope I'll explain it here in a better way so that everyone facing this issue can done this like the way I done.

Requirement

We all know while the implementation of any third party tool in ASP.net we need concerned dlls to add references in the application.

To import Gmail contacts in ASP.NET application we need to download "Google API setup" from the below link

Download Google API setup

This link I'll download following dll’s in to your PC :

Google.GData.Apps.dll
Google.GData.Client.dll
Google.GData.Contacts.dll
Google.GData.Extensions.dll

When you got these dll’s on your PC we need to add these to our application.

Add references in to your application by right click -> add reference ->Browse dll’s -> OK

Source Code

Add below source code to create a design like I created :

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head id="Head1" runat="server">
<title>Import gmail contacts in to asp.net | Neha Sharma</title>
    <style type="text/css">
        .auto-style1 {
            height: 26px;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<table align="center" style="height: 104px; width: 301px; background-color: #F0F0F0">
<tr>
<td>
    Gmail ID</td>
<td>
<asp:TextBox ID="txtgmailusername" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="auto-style1">
Password</td>
<td class="auto-style1">
<asp:TextBox ID="txtpassword" runat="server" TextMode="Password"></asp:TextBox>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
    <asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="Get" OnClick="Button1_Click" />
    </td>
<td>
     </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
    You have below contacts in Gmail ID</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<asp:GridView ID="gridemails" runat="server">
    <EmptyDataTemplate>
        You dont have any contacts yet.
    </EmptyDataTemplate>
    </asp:GridView>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
<div>
    <%--<asp:DropDownList ID="ddlemails" runat="server"></asp:DropDownList>--%>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>

Code behind :

Add the following namespaces first:

using Google.GData.Contacts;
using Google.GData.Client;
using Google.GData.Extensions;
using Google.Contacts;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.SqlClient;

Now,

public partial class Default3 : System.Web.UI.Page
{
   
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {

    }

    public  DataSet GetGmailContacts(string p_name, string e_id, string psw)
    {
        DataSet ds = new DataSet();
        DataTable dt = new DataTable();
        DataColumn dc = new DataColumn();
        dc.DataType = Type.GetType("System.String");
        dc.ColumnName = "emailid";
        dt.Columns.Add(dc);
        RequestSettings rs = new RequestSettings(p_name, e_id, psw);
        rs.AutoPaging = true;
        ContactsRequest cr = new ContactsRequest(rs);
        Feed<Contact> f = cr.GetContacts();
        foreach (Contact t in f.Entries)
        {
            foreach (EMail email in t.Emails)
            {
                DataRow dr1 = dt.NewRow();
                dr1["emailid"] = email.Address.ToString();
                dt.Rows.Add(dr1);
               
            }
        }
        ds.Tables.Add(dt);
        return ds;
       
            }
   
    public void getcontacts()
    {
        DataSet ds = GetGmailContacts("MyNetwork Web Application!", txtgmailusername.Text, txtpassword.Text);
        gridemails.DataSource = ds;
        gridemails.DataBind();
    }
    protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        getcontacts();
    }
}

Save the whole work and run the page.