Windows phone 8.1 create contact task

Question

After reverting from windows phone 8.0 to windows phone 8.1, the save contact task no longer exists. All documentation on the internet state that now

You don't have write access to the primary contact store on Windows Phone 8.1, but you have the ability to create your own contact store.

this link on msdn clearly shows how can I add contacts implicitly to my contact store.

What's strange is that WhatsApp and Telegram both allow me to create a contact and choose the account type of it (outlook, ..) and on windows phone 8.1 !

Can anyone explain this?

which type of windows phone 8.1 apps are you working on? That link is only for the silverlight version the win rt version of the phone project is different — Ken Tucker
its a win RT app. Do you mean that the current whatsapp and telegram apps are Silverlight ? Can we in Silverlight achieve what I'm trying to do? — Nada Naoushi

MinosL MinosL · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-09T09:57:41

If you're working with wp rt, your question is a duplicate of this question. In that case, you have to create your own contact store for the app you're working on (code copied from the linked question's answer):

using Windows.Phone.PersonalInformation;

public async void addPerson() {
var store = await ContactStore.CreateOrOpenAsync();

var contact = new StoredContact(store) {
    DisplayName = "Mike Peterson"
};
var props = await contact.GetPropertiesAsync();
props.add(KnownContactProperties.Email, "[email protected]");
props.add(KnownContactProperties.MobileTelephone, "+1 212 555 1234");

await contact.SaveAsync();
}

In order for your app's contacts to appear in "People", each user needs to change the filter settings of their People-App accordingly.

Windows phone 8.1 create contact task

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