How to get Phone Call History in windows Phone 7

Introduction

I've always resorted to using third party utilities for collecting the call history in my Windows Phone. But some one in the forums asked how to retrieve the call history. I finally took a look at this and it was much easier than I thought. The process is as simple as opening a handle to the call history, reading the call history, and then closing the handle. I put together the following code example for the user in the forums that had asked about it and thought to share it here.

Code

#include "stdafx.h"#include "phone.h"int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
    HANDLE callLogHandle;
    CALLLOGENTRY logEntry;if(S_OK!=PhoneOpenCallLog(&callLogHandle))return -1;//failurelogEntry.cbSize = sizeof(CALLLOGENTRY);while(S_OK==PhoneGetCallLogEntry(callLogHandle, &logEntry))
    {//The logEntry structure is populated with call data. //do something with it here.}

    PhoneCloseCallLog (callLogHandle);return 0;
}

Hopes help.