Creating Contact Picker in Windows Store Apps

<TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="49,34,0,0" Text="Click on Button to pick your contact" VerticalAlignment="Top" Height="50" Width="1267" FontSize="45" Foreground="Yellow" FontWeight="Bold"/>

</Grid>

</Page>

Step 4

You "MainPage.xaml.cs" page is as in the following code:

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.IO;

using System.Linq;

using Windows.Foundation;

using Windows.Foundation.Collections;

using Windows.UI.Xaml;

using Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls;

using Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls.Primitives;

using Windows.UI.Xaml.Data;

using Windows.UI.Xaml.Input;

using Windows.UI.Xaml.Media;

using Windows.UI.Xaml.Navigation;

using Windows.ApplicationModel.Contacts;

using Windows.UI.Xaml.Media.Imaging;

namespace ContactPicker

{

public sealed partial class MainPage : Page

{

IReadOnlyList<GetContactDetails> ConDetails;

public IReadOnlyList<GetContactDetails> ContactDetails

{

get { return ConDetails; }

set { ConDetails = value; }

}

List<GetContactDetails> Contact;

public List<GetContactDetails> SetContacts

{

get { return Contact; }

set { Contact = value; }

}

public MainPage()

{

this.InitializeComponent();

}

protected override void OnNavigatedTo(NavigationEventArgs e)

{

}

private async void PickBtn_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)

{

SetContacts = new List<ContactPicker.GetContactDetails>();

var contactSelector = new Windows.ApplicationModel.Contacts.ContactPicker();

contactSelector.CommitButtonText = "Pick contact";

var SelectedContact = await contactSelector.PickMultipleContactsAsync();

foreach (var item in SelectedContact)

{

SetContacts.Add(new GetContactDetails(item));

}

ContactList.ItemsSource = SetContacts;

}

}

public class GetContactDetails

{

public string ContactName { get; private set; }

public BitmapImage ContactImage { get; private set; }

public Visibility CanShow { get; set; }

public List<string> PhoneNumbers { get; set; }

public List<string> ContactEmails { get; set; }

public GetContactDetails(ContactInformation c)

{

PhoneNumbers = new List<string>();

ContactEmails = new List<string>();

CanShow = Visibility.Visible;

ContactName = c.Name;

if (c.PhoneNumbers.Count > 0)

{

foreach (var item in c.PhoneNumbers)

{

PhoneNumbers.Add(item.Value);

}

}

else

{

CanShow = Visibility.Collapsed;

}

GetContactImage(c);

}

async void GetContactImage(ContactInformation Img)

{

var imgStream = await Img.GetThumbnailAsync();

ContactImage = new BitmapImage();

if (imgStream != null && imgStream.Size > 0)

{

ContactImage.SetSource(imgStream);

}

}

}

}

Step 5

Now run program and click on "Pick Contact" to pick contact. People app will be opened.

Step 6

In this step Select contact form contact list and click on "Pick Contact".

Step 7

The selected contact will be displayed as in the following: