Contact Class
[ This article is for Windows Phone 8 developers. If you’re developing for Windows 10, see the latest documentation. ]
Contains all available information about an individual contact.
Assembly: Microsoft.Phone (in Microsoft.Phone.dll)
The Contact type exposes the following members.
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
 | Accounts | Gets the data sources associated with this contact. |
| Addresses | Gets the addresses associated with this contact. |
| Birthdays | Gets the birthdays associated with this contact. |
| Children | Gets the children associated with this contact. |
| Companies | Gets the companies associated with this contact. |
| CompleteName | Gets the complete name associated with this contact. |
| DisplayName | Gets the display name of the contact. |
| EmailAddresses | Gets the email addresses associated with this contact. |
| IsPinnedToStart | Gets a value that indicates whether the contact is pinned to the Start screen. |
| Notes | Gets the notes associated with this contact. |
| PhoneNumbers | Gets the phone numbers associated with this contact. |
| SignificantOthers | Gets the significant others associated with this contact. |
| Websites | Gets the websites associated with this contact. |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
 | Equals | Determines whether the specified contact is equal to the current contact. (Overrides Object::Equals(Object).) |
 | Finalize | Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before the Object is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.) |
| GetHashCode | Serves as a hash function for the contact type. (Overrides Object::GetHashCode().) |
| GetPicture | Gets a picture of the contact. |
| GetType | Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.) |
| MemberwiseClone | Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.) |
| ToString | Returns a string that represents the current contact. (Overrides Object::ToString().) |
Windows Phone provides an aggregated view of the user’s contact data across the user's different accounts. Information can come from sources such as data entered in the phone itself, social networking sites, and other data service providers. Not all data from all service providers is exposed publicly through this API. The StorageKind enumeration lists the possible sources of data.
All individual Contact objects come from the SearchAsync method of the Contacts object.
Capabilities
If you use this API in your app, you must specify the following capabilities in the app manifest. Otherwise, your app might not work correctly or it might exit unexpectedly.
ID_CAP_CONTACTS | Windows Phone 8 |
ID_CAP_APPOINTMENTS | Windows Phone 8 |
For more info, see App capabilities and hardware requirements for Windows Phone 8.