Windows® Phone 8 Unleashed

Converting a Stored Contact to and from a vCard

vCard is a standard file format used for electronic business cards. The stored contact API allows you to convert a StoredContact to and from a vCard.

The ContactInformation class contains a ParseVcardAsnc method, which asynchronously converts an IInputStream of vCard data and then returns a populated ContactInformation object, as demonstrated by the following example:

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ContactStore store = await ContactStore.CreateOrOpenAsync();ContactInformation contactInformation    = await ContactInformation.ParseVcardAsync(inputStream);StoredContact contact = new StoredContact(store, contactInformation);

Conversely, a StoredContact object is converted to an IInputStream of vCard ...