ContactPicker For Windows 10

Here we are using ContactPicker to get the information of the contact.

Step 1: Open a blank app and add a Button and a TextBlock either from the toolbox or by copying the following XAML code into your grid.

<StackPanel Margin="20,20,0,0">
<TextBlock Text="Contact Picker" FontSize="20"></TextBlock>
<StackPanel Margin="10" >
<Button Name="contactPicker" Content="Pick a contact" Height="40" Width="130" Click="contactPicker_Click" ></Button>
<TextBlock Name="selectedContact" Margin="10,20,0,0" Height="50" FontSize="20"></TextBlock>
</StackPanel>
</StackPanel>

 

Step 2: Add the following namespaces to your project which is needed in further C# code.

using System.Text;
using Windows.ApplicationModel.Contacts;

Step 3: Copy and paste the following code to the cs page which will be called on button click event and will open the contact list.

private async void contactPicker_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    var contactPicker = new ContactPicker();
    contactPicker.DesiredFieldsWithContactFieldType.Add(ContactFieldType.PhoneNumber);

    Contact contact = await contactPicker.PickContactAsync();

    var result = new StringBuilder();
    result.AppendFormat("Name: {0}", contact.DisplayName);
    result.AppendLine();

    foreach (ContactPhone phone in contact.Phones)
    {
        result.AppendFormat("Phone: {0}", phone.Number);
        result.AppendLine();
    }

    selectedContact.Text = result.ToString();
}

Step 4: Run your application and test yourself.