hi david, I am sorry that i didin't put the path for the sample code. here is the path http://developer.constantcontact.com/node/35 and the code given there is as follows public string addNewList(string accountname, string listname) { string username = "asdf1234" + % + "uname"; string completeurl = surl + accountname + @"/lists"; // collection uri Uri address = new Uri(completeurl); Debug.WriteLine(completeurl); HttpWebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(address) as HttpWebRequest; request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(username, pword); request.Method = "POST"; request.ContentType = @"application/atom+xml"; // key line StringBuilder data = new StringBuilder(); data.Append(@""); data.Append(@"data:,"); data.Append(@""); byte[] byteData = UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(data.ToString()); string st = String.Empty; // Set the content length in the request headers request.ContentLength = byteData.Length; // Write data using (Stream postStream = request.GetRequestStream()) { postStream.Write(byteData, 0, byteData.Length); } // Get response using (HttpWebResponse response = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse) { // Get the response stream StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()); st = reader.ReadToEnd(); } return st; ... View more

Thanks, let me go forward. Regards, pradeep ... View more

Dear Tom, i got the response like this EXPORT_CONTACTS PENDING 0 2009-05-18T13:52:44.031Z http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/amanaman/activities/a07e2ipl2rgfuv8k8hr EXPORT_CONTACTS: Unnamed 2009-05-18T13:52:44.031Z Constant Contact but the status is pending. why is it so? will the status be "COMPLETE" after some time? if so how can I Check batch job completion status? sorry to disturb in your busy schedule. please be kind enough to have a quick response, I am waiting. Thanks in advance, Pradeep. ... View more

Hi , I am using bulk activities collection. I want to export the contacts under a contact list. I am using the following code for that. But I am getting 400 Bad request error. Please help me out to find where could be the error. The following is the method I am using. Regards Pradeep. private string Export() { string sUserName = "USERNAME"; string sPassWord = "PASSWORD"; string sUri = "http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/" + sUserName + "/activities"; string sAPIKey = "CCAPIKEY"; string sListUri = "http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/" + sUserName + "/lists/2"; Uri address = new Uri(sUri); HttpWebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(address) as HttpWebRequest; request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential((sAPIKey + "%" + sUserName), sPassWord); request.Method = "POST"; request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded "; StringBuilder data = new StringBuilder(); data.Append("activityType=" + HttpUtility.UrlEncode("EXPORT_CONTACTS", Encoding.UTF8)); data.Append("&fileType=" + HttpUtility.UrlEncode("CSV", Encoding.UTF8)); data.Append("&exportOptDate=" + HttpUtility.UrlEncode("true", Encoding.UTF8)); data.Append("&exportOptSource=" + HttpUtility.UrlEncode("true", Encoding.UTF8)); data.Append("&exportListName=" + HttpUtility.UrlEncode("true", Encoding.UTF8)); data.Append("&sortBy=" + HttpUtility.UrlEncode("true", Encoding.UTF8)); data.Append("&columns=" + HttpUtility.UrlEncode("Email Address" , Encoding.UTF8)); data.Append("&columns=" + HttpUtility.UrlEncode("First Name", Encoding.UTF8)); data.Append("&columns=" + HttpUtility.UrlEncode("Last Name", Encoding.UTF8)); data.Append("&lists=" + HttpUtility.UrlEncode(sListUri)); byte[] byteData = UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(data.ToString()); string st = String.Empty; request.ContentLength = byteData.Length; using (Stream postStream = request.GetRequestStream()) { postStream.Write(byteData, 0, byteData.Length); } using (HttpWebResponse response = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse) { StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()); st = reader.ReadToEnd(); } return st; } ___and please tell me how could i access the CSV file created. ... View more

I think the addNewList(string accountname, string listname) is to add a new contact list to an account. Please correct me if i am wrong. But I couldn't find any place where we give the second parameter listname in the body of the function. more over that I am getting 404 error when i run this programme. please help. ... View more

please tell me how to retrieve contacts under a contact list ... View more