Retrieving Contacts from Windows Live Contacts

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Live Services SDK

This HTTP/1.1 GET method request retrieves the information that is identified by the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) of the Contact collection.

Request

For all URIs:

Method	Relative Request URI	HTTP-Version
GET	/LiveContacts/contacts	HTTP/1.1

For a single URI:

Method	Relative Request URI	HTTP-Version
GET	/LiveContacts/contacts/contact(ContactID)	HTTP/1.1

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

<Contacts>
    <Contact>
        <ID>ContactID</ID>
        …
    </Contact>
    <Contact>
        <ID>ContactID</ID>
        …
    </Contact>
    …
</Contacts>

Remarks

ContactID is a placeholder for the actual ID of the Contact collection.

Errors

For detailed information about possible error codes that are returned by this request, see Windows Live Contacts API: Error/Response Codes

Example Request

Code

Header:
GET /LiveContacts/contacts HTTP/1.1

Reference

Windows Live Contacts API: REST Schema
Adding Contacts to Windows Live Contacts
Updating Contacts with Windows Live Contacts
Deleting Contacts from Windows Live Contacts