How do I get a Hotmail contact list in C#?

How can I get a Hotmail contact list in C#? Are there any working examples? I haven't found any either through Go开发者_如何学JAVAogle or through a Stack Overflow search.

Check the website for the Windows Live Contacts API; it should give you what you're looking for, although I haven't used it myself. Looks like you need to download the Windows Live SDK from the Downloads tab on that site.

I found it via this MSDN thread which talks about a possible future Hotmail API, but as far as I can tell, a full Hotmail API doesn't exist (yet).

With live connect you can only get hash of the contact emails, but not actual mails, do not loose time on that

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh243648.aspx#contact

"An array containing a SHA-256 hash for each of the contact's email addresses."

You need to reverse-engineer the DeltaSync protocol. I think i got that far, will add link later.

As Брайков said, Microsoft no longer allow developer to get the contact emails from their Live Connect Service API

Microsoft still allows some company to use their old API like: http://www.cloudsponge.com/ (i am not work for this kind of company, but i really cannot find a updated open source api to grep hotmail/live contacts list with real email address)