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Updated Release: Contacts.Net 1.0.1 (Sep 02, 2008)

JoeCastro — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:53:43 GMT

Allows ContactManagers to be rooted in locations other than the user's Contacts folder
An abstraction above the file system
Strongly typed properties for all the standard schema properties
Group support
vCard import/export.
XP Support

This release is based on changeset 38707 of Contacts.Net

Changes from 1.0
Due to strong customer feedback, I've changed the .Business contact type and extension to .Organization. There are semantic differences between the two that don't globalize well, and the change is enough that I want to change it early to avoid too many people beginning to rely on it.

Released: Contacts.Net 1.0.1 (Sep 02, 2008)

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:53:40 GMT

Allows ContactManagers to be rooted in locations other than the user's Contacts folder
An abstraction above the file system
Strongly typed properties for all the standard schema properties
Group support
vCard import/export.
XP Support

Updated Release: Contacts.Net 1.1

JoeCastro — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:40:18 GMT

Bug fixes and features required to enable the Conmigo project.

Updated Release: Contacts.Net 1.0.1 (Sep 02, 2008)

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:03:21 GMT

Allows ContactManagers to be rooted in locations other than the user's Contacts folder
An abstraction above the file system
Strongly typed properties for all the standard schema properties
Group support
vCard import/export.
XP Support

Released: Contacts.Net 1.0.1 (Sep 02, 2008)

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:03:21 GMT

Allows ContactManagers to be rooted in locations other than the user's Contacts folder
An abstraction above the file system
Strongly typed properties for all the standard schema properties
Group support
vCard import/export.
XP Support

Updated Release: Contacts.Net 1.0.1 (Sep 02, 2008)

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:00:28 GMT

Allows ContactManagers to be rooted in locations other than the user's Contacts folder
An abstraction above the file system
Strongly typed properties for all the standard schema properties
Group support
vCard import/export.
XP Support

Released: Contacts.Net 1.0.1 (Sep 02, 2008)

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:00:28 GMT

Allows ContactManagers to be rooted in locations other than the user's Contacts folder
An abstraction above the file system
Strongly typed properties for all the standard schema properties
Group support
vCard import/export.
XP Support

Updated Release: Contacts.Net 1.0.1

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:57:08 GMT

Allows ContactManagers to be rooted in locations other than the user's Contacts folder
An abstraction above the file system
Strongly typed properties for all the standard schema properties
Group support
vCard import/export.
XP Support

Created Release: Contacts.Net 1.0.1

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:55:40 GMT

Allows ContactManagers to be rooted in locations other than the user's Contacts folder
An abstraction above the file system
Strongly typed properties for all the standard schema properties
Group support
vCard import/export.
XP Support

This release is based on changeset XXX of Contacts.Net

Changes from 1.0
Due to strong customer feedback, I've changed the .Business contact type and extension to .Organization. There are semantic differences between the two that don't globalize well, and the change is enough that I want to change it early to avoid too many people beginning to rely on it.

Updated Release: Contacts.Net 1.0 (Aug 11, 2008)

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:39:25 GMT

Allows ContactManagers to be rooted in locations other than the user's Contacts folder
An abstraction above the file system
Strongly typed properties for all the standard schema properties
Group support
vCard import/export.
XP Support

This release is based on changeset 35530 of Contacts.Net

Released: Contacts.Net 1.0 (Aug 11, 2008)

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:39:25 GMT

Allows ContactManagers to be rooted in locations other than the user's Contacts folder
An abstraction above the file system
Strongly typed properties for all the standard schema properties
Group support
vCard import/export.
XP Support

This release is based on changeset 35530 of Contacts.Net

Updated Release: Contacts.Net 1.0 (Aug 11, 2008)

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:38:33 GMT

Allows ContactManagers to be rooted in locations other than the user's Contacts folder
An abstraction above the file system
Strongly typed properties for all the standard schema properties
Group support
vCard import/export.
XP Support

UPDATED RELEASE: .9 (Oct 30, 2007)

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:48:45 GMT

The Contacts.Net library is a superset of what's provided by Vista's Windows Contacts. It works with the same .contact file format and includes group support, vcard import and export, and strongly typed class hierarchies in addition to the hierarchical path based property bag syntax. This release offers incremental improvements over .8, the biggest differences are in performance improvements. Breaking changes between this and previous versions are documented on the Wiki.

This release is snapped from checkin 28093.

*Bonus!*
This also has a basic address book application comparable in features to the Windows Contacts folder in Vista, or the WAB in older versions of Windows. It is not nearly as mature as the library itself and should not be considered production quality. It's written in XAML+C#, and has mostly served as a way for me to learn WPF. The 1.0 release should include reusable widgets for incorporating into other applications, but this isn't yet that.
To use the address book just unzip the addressbook.exe in the same folder as contacts.dll

UPDATED RELEASE: .9

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:48:09 GMT

UPDATED RELEASE: .9

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:31:06 GMT

The Contacts.Net library is a superset of what's provided by Vista's Windows Contacts. It works with the same .contact file format and includes group support, vcard import and export, and strongly typed class hierarchies in addition to the hierarchical path based property bag syntax. This release offers incremental improvements over .8, the biggest differences are in performance improvements. Breaking changes between this and previous versions are documented on the Wiki.

*Bonus!*
This also has a basic address book application comparable in features to the Windows Contacts folder in Vista, or the WAB in older versions of Windows. It is not nearly as mature as the library itself and should not be considered production quality. It's written in XAML+C#, and has mostly served as a way for me to learn WPF. The 1.0 release should include reusable widgets for incorporating into other applications, but this isn't yet that.

CREATED RELEASE: .9 XP

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:55:15 GMT

This is a superset of the functionality provided by Vista's Windows Contacts. The library works with the same file format and includes group support, vcard import and export, and strongly typed class hierarchies in addition to the COM hierarchical path based property bag. This has significant performance improvements over the .8 release. It has all the improvements of .9 but the dependency on Vista only libraries has been removed. With this release the library runs on XP with .Net 3.0 installed.

This also has a basic address book application. It is designed as sample code for how the library can be used. It's comparable to Vista's Contacts folder or the WAB in earlier versions of Windows.

This release should have no API changes from the .9 release. This release offers incremental improvements over the .8 release. API breaking changes between versions are documented on the Wiki.

UPDATED RELEASE: 1.0

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:01:48 GMT

This is a mature .Net library for working with the .Contact format introduced in Windows Vista. The features and benefits of the format itself are documented on MSDN.

Managed clients can create and manipulate contacts in the user's address book and share those changes with other applications that use the same store, such as Windows Mail and Windows Calendar. This library provides additional value beyond the COM APIs that ship as part of the Vista SDK, such as
* Allows ContactManagers to be rooted in locations other than the user's Contacts folder
* An abstraction above the file system
* Strongly typed properties for all the standard schema properties
* Group support
* vCard import/export.

CREATED RELEASE: 1

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 06:14:39 GMT

Gully Foyle is my name
And Terra is my nation.
Deep space is my resting place,
The stars my destination.

UPDATED RELEASE: .9

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 04:26:39 GMT

This is a superset of the functionality provided by Vista's Windows Contacts. The library works with the same file format and includes group support, vcard import and export, and strongly typed class hierarchies in addition to the COM hierarchical path based property bag. The biggest difference between this version and .8 is in performance improvements.

This also has a basic address book application. It is designed as sample code for how the library can be used. It's comparable to Vista's Contacts folder or the WAB in earlier versions of Windows.

This release offers incremental improvements over the .8 release. API breaking changes between versions are documented on the Wiki.

UPDATED RELEASE: .9

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 04:21:50 GMT