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Hossein <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keywords|skillSql | Whiteboard| |reviewed:2022 CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #8 from Hossein <[email protected]> --- Re-evaluating the EasyHack in 2022 This enhancement is still relevant. But things have changed since 2012. I think using Microsoft Jet Database Engine is not the best approach now, as it is currently called a deprecated technology and it does not support 64 bit applications. (In reply to DavidO from comment #3) > So what is the current name for the API? > "Windows Address Book (WAB) API" or "Windows Contacts API" > apparently they make a new one with every windows release? As can be read here, "Windows Contacts" is the new application, and API: "Windows Contacts is a contact manager that is included in Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, and Windows 11. It replaced but retains most of the functionality of Windows Address Book and worked with Windows Live Mail and the Vista version of Windows Mail." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Contacts Also, Microsoft explicitly says that WAB should not be used, and Windows Contacts API should be used instead, for the new applications: "New applications should not use this set of interfaces. These interfaces exist for backward compatibility with legacy applications. These interfaces will be unavailable in the future. In Windows Vista, Windows Contacts replaces Windows Address Book (WAB). For more information about this new mechanism for storing and retrieving contact information, see Windows Contacts." https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/desktop/wab/-wab-entry Here, "Programming Windows Contacts" is discussed with many examples: Programming Windows Contacts https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/desktop/wincontacts/-wincontacts-example-entry -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
