Windows Contacts - Features

Features

  • Windows Contacts is implemented as a special folder in Windows Vista and Windows 7. It is in the Start Menu of Windows Vista and can be run in Windows 7 by searching for 'Contacts' (or 'wab.exe') in the Start Menu. Contacts can be stored in folders and groups.
  • It can import vCard, CSV, WAB and LDIF formats.
  • It can export in vCard 2.1 and CSV formats. Users can right-click a contact to quickly convert it to vCard format and send it to anyone.
  • It can print contacts in Memo, Business Card, Phone List formats.
  • Because contacts are stored in the Contacts folder simply as individual.contact files, they’re just another data type in the operating system that can be indexed and searched by Windows Search. Individual contacts can be quickly accessed from the Start menu search text box.
  • Windows Live People, the contact manager for Windows Live Messenger and Windows Live Mail can store its information in the Windows Contacts folder if the option to encrypt it is unchecked in Windows Live Messenger. Whenever contacts in Messenger are updated, they'll be updated in Windows Contacts as well. This feature however only works up to Windows Live Messenger 8.5. Windows Contacts synchronization is not supported in Windows Live Messenger 9.0.
  • Windows Contacts exposes APIs for creating new contacts, reading and writing in an existing contact, adding a "Label" in the form of a URI to a "Property" or a "Property" to a "Contact", API for synchronizing devices with Windows Contacts.

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