Using WMI From Managed Code Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is Microsoft's implementation of Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) and the Common Information Model (CIM). Although WMI is COM-based, Andriy Klyuchevskyy shows you how you can access it from C# and VB.NET through System.Management, thanks to COM Inter-Op. How to access Outlook and post to a blog using C# An article for all those like Robert Scoble who would like to be able to drag and drop an item to a folder in their Outlook and post it instantly to their Blog. We also briefly cover web services and talking to Outlook. Accessing Hotmail using C# This document will enable you to build your own client, using a sure and solid way to communicate with Hotmail in the same way as Outlook does. It will be shown how the protocol can be used to your own advantage, and it isn't at all hard to understand either. Web Promotion It has been common knowledge for several years now, particularly among the Search Engine Optimization community, that link popularity has a significant effect upon the positioning of your web site with the various search engines – particularly Google. The theory or thought behind this is that the more people that recommend your site by providing a link to it from their own site, then the more valuable the information must be on that site. Makes sense don’t you think? It’s like a vote of confidence in the target site. However, when this became general knowledge it spawned a whole new industry, dedicated to providing hundreds of links to web sites with link exchange clubs and paid linking companies etc. At that time it did not matter where the link came from or if the site providing the link had anything to do with the target web site – just as long as there were as many links as possible to your own web site. Business - All business/finance/loan/mortgage related link can be found here more 1 2 3 4 5 Computers - All computer hardware/software/peripheral related link can be found here more 1 2 3 4 5 Internet - All webhosting/webdesign/internet marketing related link can be found here more 1 2 3 4 5 Software - All software related link can be found here more 1 2 3 4 5 Web Design - All web design/development related link can be found here more 1 2 3 4 5 Web Hosting - All web hosting related link can be found here more 1 2 3 4 5 Web Promotion - All search engine optimization/internet marketing related link can be found here more 1 2 3 4 5 Web Resources - All other web related link can be found here more 1 2 3 4 5 Recreation - All travel/hotel/cruise related link can be found here more 1 2 3 4 5 Casino - All online gambling/poker/blackjack/roulette related link can be found here more 1 2 3 4 5 Health - All online pharmacy/hospital/health related link can be found here more 1 2 3 4 5 Shopping - All online shopping/gift related link can be found here more 1 2 3 4 5 Miscellaneous - All other links can be found here more 1 2 3 4 5   On March 31, 2005, Google made public the contents of their filing with the United States Patent Office, which revealed many of the secrets of the Google algorithm (or method) of determining the true link popularity of a site, and also many other important determining factors. These details confirmed the importance of link popularity to Google, but also put some important qualifiers on those incoming links. It was no longer the sheer volume of links that mattered but the quality of those links! And one of the more significant measures of link popularity for Google is the relevancy of those links. For instance, a site with thousands of unrelated links is not going to help you one little bit if that site now adds a link to your site – in fact Google is smart enough to figure out that the link, most likely, has nothing at all to do with the value of the content on your site. So why should that link improve your search engine positioning?