Desperately need help - how can I read Outlook contacts via IE add-in?

[esar...@gmail.com]

Hi folks,

My dev team has been struggling for months to create an activex
control (add-in) for IE to read a person's Outlook contacts for the
social network I am building - assuming they agree to install it of
course.

Should this be difficult? Are there any libraries they could buy for
this?

P.S. Could also use the same thing for Hotmail, Gmail, etc...

- E