How to Read Gmail Unread messages using C#

            
                  I am coming with Gmail feature that may be useful although many people don't know and how to access it via simple C# code.

Gmail gives a feature called Atom feed that is xml format file to know the unread messages .

  
                http://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom/ shows the most recent unread items from your inbox.

              Gmail also offers feeds for your labels:http://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom/labelname/ .
To know the feature in detials go to this link @ (the unofficial news and tips about Google).

                As a developer you can download the C# example here.
                   All what you need is create instance a simple class called GmailHandler and drop this lines in your project.




There are 2 steps in the procedure

  

1.      Create the gmail handler class:                GmailHandler gmailFeed = new GmailHandler("WriteHereYourGmailUserName(ex:  babu))", "WriteHereYourGmailPassword(ex: ****)");
2.    Get the feed:       XmlDocument myXml = gmailFeed.GetGmailAtom();

       

happy coding............

 Thanks to Ahmed Essawy for sharing this...

Given here http://fci-h.blogspot.in/2009/09/reading-atom-feed-of-gmail-inbox-via-c.html

Update:
           Sorry guys I'm not good at content editing.. Forgive me if any mistakes found.

For this we need to call the specific atom url  with the authentication.
     
       What ahmed is trying is make this as class library and make it more object oriented. If you don't care about such things go below




            StringBuilder sBuilder = new StringBuilder();
            // create a request for gmail atom url
            WebRequest webRequest = WebRequest.Create( "https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom");

            // make the request pre authenticated
            webRequest.PreAuthenticate = true;

            // Create the credentials and attach it to the request
            System.Net.NetworkCredential credentials = new NetworkCredential("gmail username", "gmail password");
            webRequest.Credentials = credentials;

           //Pass the request and get the response          
            WebResponse webResponse = webRequest.GetResponse();
            Stream stream = webResponse.GetResponseStream();
           
          // Get the response stream and read it to a string builder
            while ((byteCount = stream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length)) > 0)
                sBuilder.Append(System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString(buffer, 0, byteCount));

           // Then convert the string to xml
            feedXml = new XmlDocument();
            feedxml.Load(sBuilder.ToString());


        This method only returns the unread gmail messages only.. You can make it to some sort of notifications to your app....


   Thanks....