I want to show how many unread emails I have in my inbox (gmail) and show this number in a label.
e.g Inbox(3)
I've tried a load of sites but couldn't get anything.
I'm new to programming in general so any help would be great.
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ok i found this code on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/989986/reading-atom-feed-of-gmail-account-from-c at the very bottom it has a soulution to autheniticate the atom feed so how owuld i go about parsing the xml and showing it in a label thanks for all the help – Shane121 Aug 21 '10 at 19:24
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The simplest is to do a query to: http://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom/unread/
You can read more about it here: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/03/feed-for-unread-gmail-messages.html
As pointed out by @TheVillageIdiot, there is a the code gallery at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/CSharpGmail . Scroll down and read about GmailAtomFeed.
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You need to do something like below.
1- Maintain a column (Say IsReaded) in the database table if you are using some database table to store your email.
1- When ever user clicks an email , you need to update the column in database table to 'Y'.
you can do this task asynchronously, using Ajax
2- Just use this Sql ' select count(1) from tblMessages where IsRead ='N''
3- than update the label with the count.
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