Windows.Phone.PersonalInformation Namespace

Provides APIs for managing a custom contact store.

Classes

ContactAddress	Represents a civic address for StoredContact objects.
ContactChangeRecord	Represents a change in contact information that occurred between revisions.
ContactInformation	Represents a contact without an association to a contact store.
ContactQueryOptions	Represents query options for retrieving contacts using CreateContactQuery.
ContactQueryResult	Represents the result of a contact query.
ContactStore	Represents the custom contact store for a Windows Phone app.
KnownContactProperties	Provides key names for accessing known properties for StoredContact or ContactInformation objects.
StoredContact	Represents a contact associated with a custom contact store.

Interfaces

IContactInformation	Defines the interface for contact information.
IContactInformation2	Provides additional contact properties.

Enums

ContactChangeType	Indicates the type of change represented by a ContactChangeRecord.
ContactQueryResultOrdering	Specifies the order in which contacts are returned from a CreateContactQuery call.
ContactStoreApplicationAccessMode	Specifies the application access mode for a custom contact store created with CreateOrOpenAsync.
ContactStoreSystemAccessMode	Specifies the system access mode for a custom contact store created with CreateOrOpenAsync.
VCardFormat	The format of a vCard.

Remarks

APIs in this namespace are typically used for a Microsoft Silverlight app for Windows Phone. For most scenarios, similar APIs exist that can be used by a Windows Runtime app for Windows Phone, and if you use these APIs you can apply much of your code to a universal app. See:

• Windows.ApplicationModel.Contacts namespace (particularly ContactInformation class)
• Windows.ApplicationModel.Contacts.Provider namespace (particularly ContactPickerUI class)

Note

There are some scenarios where you will need Windows.Phone.PersonalInformation API even when writing a Windows Runtime app. For example, see the Contact Picker app sample. For Windows Phone, the sample uses the Windows.Phone.PersonalInformation API to prepopulate the contact store for demonstration purposes.

See also

• Implementing contact bindings in a Windows Phone Silverlight 8.1 app