Windows People

Windows People enables developers building WinUI, UWP, and other apps with package identity to store contacts that can appear as suggestions in the People Widget, Windows Search, Universal Composer, and the Share panel. See How to share files in File Explorer on Windows for more information about the Share panel.

Beyond storing contacts, your app can:

• Provide ranks so your top contacts appear in the Share Sheet suggestions row.
• Declare the communication actions it supports for a contact, such as messaging or calling.
• Record contact activities, which are interaction signals Windows uses to identify relevant contacts.

Choose a guide

Start with Contribute contacts to Windows. The other guides build on it.

Task	What you do	Guide
Contribute contacts	Create a user data account, store contacts, and configure access.	Contribute contacts to Windows
Share ranking	Provide ranks for contact suggestions.	Rank contacts for Windows Share
Communication actions	Declare supported actions and handle activation.	Enable communication actions for contacts
Contact activities	Record interactions to help Windows identify relevant contacts.	Record contact activities

Related content

• Integrate Share options in your Windows app
• Appear in suggestions row
• Package identity overview
• Windows.ApplicationModel.Contacts namespace