Controling an external program, where do I begin?

Question

Hi! I'm about to write an application that automates certain behaviors of an external Windows application. This is going to involve extracting data from listviews, sending mouseclicks to certain object, sending keybord strokes to windows and listviews etc. My problem is that I really don't know where to start looking for articles and/or tutorials that help me learn to do this stuff. I'm new to C# (although I have some experience with C++ and Java) so the stuff needs to be as basic as possible. If you don't have any specific articles to recommend, under which general topcis does this fall? :) Thanks! Regards, Fredrik Johansson