how to get phone contacts in windows phone app 8.0 without using silverlight template

Question

I am new to windows developement. I want to get the contacts from phone, but i am getting contacts from phone when i am using silverlight template. Now i want without using sliverlight template i need to get contacts from phone. i tried alot,but i failed to get the contacts from phone without using silverlight template. please any one help me how to get the cotacts from phone without using silver light template.I am using Blankapp(windows phone) template in visual studio 2013

thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Please look at How to access contact data for Windows Phone 8 and Selecting user contacts Windows Phone Store app. First link is refering to Silverlight app, the second one - Windows Runtime