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Adding New Contact into Apple Contacts

Issue: 23.1 (January/February 2025)
Author: Stefanie Juchmes-Simonis
Author Bio: Stefanie studied computer science at the university in Bonn. She came in touch with Xojo due to the work of her brother-in-law and got a junior developer position in early 2019 at Monkeybread Software.
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Did you know that you can work with Apple Contacts in Xojo using the MBS Xojo plugins? In this article, I would like to show you how to create a contact from Xojo in the Apple phone book.

In Figure 1, we have a window that provides the data for our contact.

We would now like to use this data in our code. To do this, we first create a new instance of the CNContactStoreMBS class. This instance allows us to work with the contacts and execute fetch and save requests.

Next, we create a new contact as an instance of the CNMutableContactMBS class. We can now set our data on this object. For example, we set the first name of the person using givenName.

Dim ContactStore As New CNContactStoreMBS

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