import contacts of msn/yahoo

[millisami]

Hi, i will be launching a site on which i will have a birthday reminder service along with some other features. Site is being made with the help of ASP and MSAccess. its birthday reminder service is a bit similar to that of birthdayalarm.com. Now if you go to www.birthdayalarm.com you will notice that when it gives you an option to add birthdays to your list, it allows you to get access to your msn list on that very site..a user just has to enter his msn/yahoo id and password on that site and then it shows his full contact list, and then with just one click it can e-mail all those users in the contact list. I want that kind of a system with which users on my site can have access to their msn and yahoo contact list...after they provide their user id and password. Does someone has any idea on how that thing can be made available on my site...any help would be greatly appreciated as its a really important part of my site. Any help (specially with some detailed instructions) would be greatly appreciated. thnx

[Basavaraj P Umadi]

hi, i have tried it to import it into my application which serves the same purpose as u have told abt ur website... what basically i did was .. first i exported my contacts to a CSV format...(For outlook or for yahoo).. u can view this file in excel or notepad.. this shows a comma seperated structure maintained by the yahoo... read the format and thru asp u can get the contents... i had done it in VB... in ur case there is a problem that u want to access an account thru your webpage.. for that maybe u need to get some special privilages to login thru an application into yahoo/msn and then request for the CSV file.. all the best...