How to access contacts in windows phone app 8.0?

Question

I have a form to enter a phone number.

user should be able to select the contacts from his contact list by a click of a button. When the user selects a contact the numbers should appear in a text box in the form..

Can some one kindly help me code this... any kind of help is appreciated......

Answer 1

using Microsoft.Phone.UserData;

Is what you're looking for..

Something like :

private void ButtonContacts_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    Contacts cons = new Contacts();

    //Identify the method that runs after the asynchronous search completes.
    cons.SearchCompleted += new EventHandler<ContactsSearchEventArgs>(Contacts_SearchCompleted);

    //Start the asynchronous search.
    cons.SearchAsync(String.Empty, FilterKind.None, "Contacts Test #1");
}

void Contacts_SearchCompleted(object sender, ContactsSearchEventArgs e)
{
    //Do something with the results.
    MessageBox.Show(e.Results.Count().ToString());
}

The documentation on this is quite verbose : MSDN