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B. Clay Shannon-B. Crow Raven
B. Clay Shannon-B. Crow Raven

Reputation: 10297

Why does the People app show no contacts / doesn't allow me to pick contacts?

I'm trying to allow the user to select a contact from the People app this way:

private async Task<System.Collections.Generic.KeyValuePair<string, string>> SelectAContactForASlot()
{
    KeyValuePair<string, string> kvp; // = new KeyValuePair<string, string>();
    var contactPicker = new Windows.ApplicationModel.Contacts.ContactPicker();
    contactPicker.CommitButtonText = "Select";
    var contact = await contactPicker.PickSingleContactAsync();
    if (contact != null)
    {
        kvp = new KeyValuePair<string, string>(contact.Name, contact.Emails[0].ToString());
        return kvp;
    }
    return kvp = new KeyValuePair<string, string>("No Name found", "No email found");
}

The People app does get invoked, but it looks like this:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ People v

Something went wrong, and this app can't pick contacts right now.

Try selecting the app again.

            | Select |  | Cancel |

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I added a couple of contacts yesterday, so it does contain contacts. Is there something wrong with my code, or how else can I solve this problem?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 475

Answers (1)

Damir Arh
Damir Arh

Reputation: 17865

I tried your code and it opened the contact picker as expected. Just for a test, try creating a new application with a single button which calls your method from its Click event handler, like I did.

Also, you might want to freshly logon / reboot to your machine if the problem persists. I know I had similar problems with the sharing functionality in the past - after handling it wrong in my code, even correct code didn't work any more until a reboot.

While I'm at it: you might want to change your code a little bit - to actually get the email address, replace contact.Emails[0].ToString() with contact.Emails[0].Value:

private async Task<System.Collections.Generic.KeyValuePair<string, string>> SelectAContactForASlot()
{
    KeyValuePair<string, string> kvp; // = new KeyValuePair<string, string>();
    var contactPicker = new Windows.ApplicationModel.Contacts.ContactPicker();
    contactPicker.CommitButtonText = "Select";
    var contact = await contactPicker.PickSingleContactAsync();
    if (contact != null)
    {
        kvp = new KeyValuePair<string, string>(contact.Name, contact.Emails[0].Value);
        return kvp;
    }
    return kvp = new KeyValuePair<string, string>("No Name found", "No email found");
}

Don't forget to get handle the case when the contact doesn't have any email addresses, as well.

Upvotes: 1

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