I'd like to open a SharePoint 2010 meeting page from a client side, Win form, C# application. How is this done? There is plenty of documentation to open a site and a List page but almost nothing on this. Can anyone help?
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I think you cannot open the page per se (unless you use a internet explorer wrapper). But you can get all the underlying data from that meeting (all data in sharepoint lives in lists) and render it in your winform page by rebuilding the page with winform layout, controls etc,
To extract the data you have a variety of options:
Client Object Model (check the item under building a console app) - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee857094(v=office.14).aspx
Using Sharepoint Web services - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ee705814(v=office.14).aspx
Using the REST API - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff798339.aspx
In your particular scenario I would go with the first option since it provides a more streamlined api for .net apps and allows among other goodies batching of commands which will improve the performance of your comms with the sharepoint server.