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.