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Sameh
Sameh

Reputation: 1020

Create, Delete, Update Contacts windows phone 8 with .net

Is there any way to create new contact or update/delete pre-existing contact in window phone 8 SDK? .Net or Native code, I need to allow my app to manage the contacts regardless the contact account (Google, Microsoft ...) similar as the build-in contact app can do,

I appreciate your help. Thanks Sam

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2255

Answers (2)

Slobo80
Slobo80

Reputation: 188

You cannot modify the contacts belonging to Gmail or any other service. You can add a contact to the People Hub and that contact will be stored in Contact Store which is associated with the app. Once the app is uninstalled the contact will be removed with it. This prevents People Hub getting spammed with the app contacts.

Upvotes: 4

gregstoll
gregstoll

Reputation: 1318

As Jim mentioned, the Custom contact store is probably the closest thing to what you want. This wasn't possible in Windows Phone 7 and the What's new in the SDK for Windows Phone 8 doesn't mention any change.

I wouldn't expect this to change - generally for other companies to get full access to contacts from other services (like Facebook, for example), I've heard they're not allowed to expose the data programmatically. This was the case on webOS at least (again, just what I've heard)...

Upvotes: 0

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