Integrating contact list for windows 7 phone into app

Question

How do I grab the contact list of a windows 7 phone for use inside a win7 phone app?

Answer 1

It's doable in Windows Phone OS 7.1

Here's the MSDN article on How To Access Contact List Data For Windows Phone

And here's a code snippet from the article:

using Microsoft.Phone.UserData;

private void ButtonContacts_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    Contacts cons = new Contacts();

    //Identify the method that runs after the asynchronous search completes.
    cons.SearchCompleted += new EventHandler(Contacts_SearchCompleted);

    //Start the asynchronous search.
    cons.SearchAsync(String.Empty, FilterKind.None, "Contacts Test #1");
}

void Contacts_SearchCompleted(object sender, ContactsSearchEventArgs e)
{
    //Do something with the results.
    MessageBox.Show(e.Results.Count().ToString());
}