Windows Phone 8: Contacts Integration
Published on Wednesday, January 16, 2013 7:19:45 AM UTC in Programming
One of the cool features of Windows Phone from the start has been its tight and seamless integration of various sources into common and central places on the phone, like the people hub. To this end, multiple contact entries can be and often even are automatically linked together so information from different origin like Facebook, Twitter or Outlook is aggregated and merged into a single profile. However, this mechanism of deep integration was something that was managed by the operating system and first party apps. As developer, you had no chance of using similar features from within your own apps. With Windows Phone 8, Microsoft has improved this and added a way for us developers to integrate with a user's contacts list. Read the article over at SilverlightShow:
http://www.silverlightshow.net/items/Windows-Phone-8-Contacts-Integration.aspx
Tags: Windows Phone · Windows Phone 8