Retrieving Contacts

The Contacts class allows you to search the user’s contacts for a string. The search can be restricted to a single field of the Contact class, or to contacts that have been pinned to the phone’s Start Experience (home screen). Searches are performed using one of the following FilterKind enumeration values:

Image None (default value)

Image DisplayName

Image EmailAddress

PhoneNumber

PinnedToStart

To query the user’s contact list, define a Contacts ...

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