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I'm creating a C# Winforms app that will allow me to edit my Gmail contacts. I'm very new to anything involving HTTP & security, so naturally I'm completely lost in the DotNetOpenAuth samples & documentation. I really wanted to be able to read a tutorial that describes how to use DotNetOpenAuth to obtain Gmail contacts.

Is there such a tutorial? I see that the samples have a GoogleConsumer object, but I'm not really sure what "consumer" means in this context. All I know about OAuth is that it allows one website to redirect to another (like Google) to login and allow that original website access to data. Since I'm doing this in a Winform app, I'm not sure how that translates.

Basically, all of this cluelessness is depressing me and I'm trying not to get burned out. Does anyone know of a tutorial I can read that will 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's step 1, then step 2, etc".

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Check out the OAuthConsumerWpf sample. It has a tab that demonstrates an OAuth consumer that downloads Gmail contacts.