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 Resources Well I find it time to speak again about linking as I have a couple of times in the past two years. I think I have gone the cycle and I think I have arrived. What do we want linking to do for us and what can linking actually do for us? Well we want it to get us traffic. Most of us think it can get us traffic two ways. One way we hope to get traffic is by making the search engines think we are good because of all the links to us. We are hoping that will rank us higher in those search engines. All the SEO companies want to help us be on the FIRST PAGE of Google. Well with the billions of websites now and all the keywords maxed out – can we all be on the first or second page? Of course not! Business - Directory of business/finance/loan/mortgage related partner sites more 1 2 3 4 5 Computers - Directory of computer hardware/software/peripheral related partner sites more 1 2 3 4 5 Internet - Directory of webhosting/webdesign/internet marketing related partner sites more 1 2 3 4 5 Software - Directory of software related partner sites more 1 2 3 4 5 Web Design - Directory of web design/development related partner sites more 1 2 3 4 5 Web Hosting - Directory of web hosting related partner sites more 1 2 3 4 5 Web Promotion - Directory of search engine optimization/internet marketing related partner sites more 1 2 3 4 5 Web Resources - Directory of other web related partner sites more 1 2 3 4 5 Recreation - Directory of travel/hotel/cruise related partner sites more 1 2 3 4 5 Casino - Directory of online gambling/poker/blackjack/roulette related partner sites more 1 2 3 4 5 Health - Directory of online pharmacy/hospital/health related partner sites more 1 2 3 4 5 Shopping - Directory of online shopping/gift related partner sites more 1 2 3 4 5 Miscellaneous - Directory of all other partner sites more 1 2 3 4 5   So why don’t we all help each other with good linking practices? If you are going to link to me so that others can find my site, why in the hell don’t you make it easy for those visitors to go from your home page to your link index? WHERE IS THE DAM Text to click on for links? If I can’t find it to verify my link, then I know damn well that your site visitors won’t find it or even look for it if it’s that hard to find. As you can see, this really irks me. Secondly, for your link site to be useful to me, visitors need to find me or my product in that huge directory that we all are trying to develop. The best way to make it easy for searchers to find a link to a website or product is with a “search utility” installed and kept current on the page of that big link directory. Visitors can then search for a product, name or contact and get easy and immediate results.