How Could I Pick All Contact Details

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I'm new to Windows Mobile. Developing a Windows phone Universal store application.
When my app starts i'm supposed to pick the Contact name and Phone Number available in the Phone.

Could any one guide me through a correct tutorial.

I did the following got all contact Names in ListView.

C#

var contactStore = await ContactManager.RequestStoreAsync();
var contacts = await contactStore.FindContactsAsync();

foreach (var Item in contacts)
{
    lstContact.Items.Add(Item.DisplayName);
}

But how do i get the result in following format

Name 1
Phone Number

Name 2
Phone Number

:
:

Name n
Phone Number

Request for help.

Posted 15-Jun-15 2:32am

Hari-CodeBlogger

Updated 16-Jun-15 20:46pm

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LLLLGGGG · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-15T02:54:00

Solution 1

Hi,

As far as I've seen on MSDN, contactStore.FindContactsAsync() returns you a list of contacts [^].
In the foreach loop you can retrieve the phone numbers by using Item.phones[^] which returns a list of ContactPhones[^] and for the name you can use Item.Name[^] which returns a string.

Anyway, it's very important for you to look at this page to get further information: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows.applicationmodel.contacts.contact.aspx[^]

Your results are displayed like that in the listbox because there is a hidden call to the method ToString when an object is added to the Listbox if a good DataTemplate is missing, so you get the String representation of a ContactPhone object.

I hope this helps.

LG

Posted 15-Jun-15 2:54am

LLLLGGGG

Updated 15-Jun-15 2:57am

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LLLLGGGG 15-Jun-15 8:58am

PS: always look up things on MSDN when you're stuck: it's a very handy site and it solved whatever error/doubt you can face about a class/property/methoda and so forth.

Hari-CodeBlogger 17-Jun-15 3:15am

When i use Item.Phones , it prints "Windows.Foundation.Collection.NonNullVector" ., Is this because i use the emulator.?

LLLLGGGG 17-Jun-15 3:19am

That is because it is a vector. Access to an item of tne vector to see a phone number. Do Item.Phones[0].Number. It should work... You can also use a foreach loop and access all the phone numbers in the collection.

Hari-CodeBlogger 17-Jun-15 3:28am

Thank You so much..

LLLLGGGG 17-Jun-15 4:19am

You are welcome.

Hari-CodeBlogger 4-Jul-15 9:34am

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