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Address Book is a centralized database for contact and other personal information for people. Developers can use the Address Book framework to create, find, modify, and extend Address Book content and to share such content with other applications, including Apple's Mail and iChat.

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Integrating Sync Services into Your Application (HTML)
Learn how to sync any kind of data in your application using Sync Services.
Articles 2005-06-06
Sync Services Programming Guide (HTML) (PDF)
Explains how to add syncing to your applications.
Guides 2007-10-31
Sync Services Tutorial (HTML) (PDF)
Explains how to debug multiple syncing applications using the Syncrospector development tool.
Guides 2007-07-11
Address Book Programming Guide for Mac OS X (HTML) (PDF)
Explains how to add, search, remove, and customize Address Book records.
Guides 2006-04-04
Apple Applications Schema Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes the schemas used by Apple Applications to sync records such as contacts, calendars, and bookmarks.
Reference 2007-10-31
Sync Services Framework Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes the Objective-C API for the Sync Services framework used to sync applications and devices.
Reference 2007-10-31
ABAddressBook C Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes the opaque type for accessing, adding, and removing Address Book records.
Reference 2007-07-08
Address Book Objective-C Framework Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes the Cocoa API for supporting and working with Address Book.
Reference 2007-07-08
ABRecord Class Objective-C Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describres how this superclass providies a common interface to and defines common properties for all Address Book records.
Reference 2006-07-26
ABMutableMultiValue Class Objective-C Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes how to use these classes to represent properties that might have multiple values.
Reference 2006-05-23
Address Book C Framework Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes the C API for supporting and working with Address Book.
Reference 2006-05-23
ABSearchElement C Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes the opaque type for specifying a query to search for Address Book records.
Reference 2005-04-29
ABMutableMultiValue Reference for C (HTML) (PDF)
Describes the opaque type for accessing Address Book properties with multiple values.
Reference 2003-08-20
Sync Services Release Notes (10.5) (HTML)
Describes new features, notes, and known issues for Sync Services on Mac OS X v10.5.
Release Notes 2007-10-31
Address Book Reference Update (HTML) (PDF)
Summarizes the symbols added to the Address Book framework.
Release Notes 2007-07-18
Sync Services Release Notes (10.4) (HTML)
Release Notes 2005-04-29
Birthdays (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Dashboard widget with a plug-in that queries AddressBook.framework for contacts with upcoming birthdays.
Sample Code 2008-09-10
PredicateEditorSample (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to use the NSPredicateEditor class.
Sample Code 2007-06-06
ABPresence (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Displays a list of all the people in your Address Book and their iChat status.
Sample Code 2006-08-04
CocoaPeoplePicker (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to use the AddressBook framework's ABPeoplePickerView.
Sample Code 2003-12-11
AddressBookCarbon (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates some basic manipulations of the Mac OS X 10.2.x (and beyond) Address Book API.
Sample Code 2003-01-14
AddressBookCocoa (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates some basic manipulations of the Mac OS X 10.2.x (and beyond) Address Book API.
Sample Code 2003-01-14
Crash in ABAddPropertiesAndTypes (HTML)
QA1404: How to correctly add custom Address Book properties using ABAddPropertiesAndTypes
Technical Q&As 2005-04-04