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Commit 92ebe1aaf95de85d95b319fba11570605eea4706 in cordova-plugin-contacts's 
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Merge pull request #1 from purplecabbage/CB-1291-Windows8

Cb 1291 windows8

> Windows 8 Contacts - Find+Create APIs
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>                 Key: CB-1291
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-1291
>             Project: Apache Cordova
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Plugin Contacts, Windows 8
>            Reporter: Jesse MacFadyen
>            Assignee: Jesse MacFadyen
>
> It looks like we will need to approach Contacts on Windows 8 differently.
> The goal of the Contacts API is not to have every app become a 
> ContactProvider, which would result in chaos ... 
> Windows 8 does not have built in contacts, they are managed internally by the 
> People app.  The People app is a ContactProvider  so when you are performing 
> an operation that requires a contact, you are given the opportunity to select 
> one or more contacts from the People app, as well as every other app that 
> publishes the ContactProvider contract.
> Searching contacts cannot be achieved given Windows 8 APIs and interaction 
> with the People app, but the primary use case of picking one or more contacts 
> to interact with can work.
> I think the best approach would be to return a contact object as defined by 
> PhoneGap APIs, but allow the user to actually do the selection ( via the 
> picker )
> Here is a good write-up by a Microsoft evangelist about how contacts work on 
> Windows 8.
> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/glengordon/archive/2012/08/28/windows-8-apps-for-the-phonegap-developer-contacts.aspx



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