Apply the New Vista APIs to Sidebar Gadgets, Part 1  : Page 2

Contacts
To access the contacts information stored in Windows Contacts (Start—>Programs—>Windows Contacts), you can use the following objects:

• System.ContactManager
• System.Contact

The System.ContactManager Object
This object exposes a collection of System.Contact objects through its Contacts collection. The following code gets all the contacts (located in C:\Users\<User_Name>\Contacts) and passes it to the contacts variable:

//---get all contacts---
var contacts = System.ContactManager.Contacts;

To access each contact individually, you can use its item property (zero-based):

                                


//---get a particular contact (first contact)---
var contact = System.ContactManager.Contacts.item(0);

The count property provides the number of contacts retrieved:

//---get a particular contact (first contact)---
var count = System.ContactManager.Contacts.count;

The System.Contact Object
This object contains all the details of a contact. The following code shows how to retrieve all the contacts on the local computer and then prints out the details of each individual contact:

 //---get all contacts---
   var contacts = System.ContactManager.Contacts;

   var result = document.getElementById("result");
   result.innerHTML = "";

   //---print the details for each contact---
   for (i=0; i<contacts.count; i++)
   {
      result.innerHTML += "<b>" + contacts.item(i).name + "</b><br/>";
      result.innerHTML += contacts.item(i).city + "<br/>";
      result.innerHTML += contacts.item(i).country + "<br/>";
      result.innerHTML += contacts.item(i).defaultEmail + "<br/>";         
      result.innerHTML += contacts.item(i).filePath + "<br/>";
      result.innerHTML += contacts.item(i).homePhone + "<br/>";
      result.innerHTML += contacts.item(i).mobilePhone + "<br/>";
      result.innerHTML += contacts.item(i).POBox + "<br/>";
      result.innerHTML += contacts.item(i).postalCode + "<br/>";
      result.innerHTML += contacts.item(i).state + "<br/>";
      result.innerHTML += contacts.item(i).street + "<br/>";
      result.innerHTML += contacts.item(i).workPhone + "<br/>";
	}

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