I am creating a C # Winforms application that will allow me to edit my Gmail contacts. I am very new to HTTP and security, so naturally I completely lost the DotNetOpenAuth samples and documentation. I really wanted to read a tutorial that describes how to use DotNetOpenAuth to get Gmail contacts.
Is there such a textbook? I see that the samples have a GoogleConsumer object, but I'm not quite sure what “consumer” means in this context. All I know about OAuth is that it allows one website to redirect to another (e.g. Google) login and allow access to the original website. Since I am doing this in a Winform application, I am not sure how this translates.
In principle, all this ignorance depresses me, and I try not to burn out. Does anyone know a tutorial that I can read to describe how to use DotNetOpenAuth to access GMail contacts? Again, I don't think the samples will help me, since they seem to be using ASP.NET, and there is no real sense of “here is step 1, then step 2, etc.”.
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