Windows Address Book Functions

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New applications should not use these functions. These functions exist for backward compatibility with legacy applications. These functions will be unavailable in the future.

Note

In Windows Vista, Windows Contacts replaces Windows Address Book (WAB). For more information about this new mechanism for storing and retrieving contact information, see Windows Contacts.

This section describes the functions associated with WAB.

Functions

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WABOpen Do not use. Provides access to the address book through a number of object interfaces. The root interface is IAddrBook, which is a subset of the MAPI implementation of IAddrBook.
WABOpenEx Do not use. Provides access to the WAB through a number of object interfaces. The root interface is IAddrBook, which is a subset of the MAPI implementation of IAddrBook.