LiveContactsView Changelog

What's new in LiveContactsView 1.26

Sep 4, 2015
  • Fixed bug: On records with empty last modified date, LiveContactsView displayed a random date/time.
  • Updated the internal ESE database reader.

New in LiveContactsView 1.25 (Jul 30, 2014)

  • Added new columns: 'Job Title', 'Work Email', 'Other Email', 'Other Phone'.

New in LiveContactsView 1.22 (Dec 28, 2012)

  • Fixed bug: In some contacts files, LiveContactsView failed to read most of the fields

New in LiveContactsView 1.21 (Dec 21, 2012)

  • Added 'Home Email' column. The 'Email Address' column from previous versions is now displayed as 'Messenger Address'

New in LiveContactsView 1.20 (Nov 30, 2012)

  • LiveContactsView now reads and parses the contacts file directly, instead of using esent.dll to read the contacts database. This change should solve many error problems that occur when using esent.dll - it seems that in many cases, the API of esent.dll fails with various error messages even when the database file is completely fine. Also, reading the file directly is much faster than using esent.dll. If from some reason, LiveContactsView fails to read the contacts database with the new method, you can still force LiveContactsView to use the old method (esent.dll) by running it with the following command-line option: LiveContactsView.exe /UseDll
  • LiveContactsView now also displays contacts with no email address or buddy identifier. (In previous versions LiveContactsView dropped them)
  • LiveContactsView now also scans the Microsoft\Windows Live\Contacts subfolder to search for contacts.edb
  • Added 'Auto Size Columns+Headers' option, which allows you to automatically resize the columns according to the row values and column headers.
  • Fixed issue: The properties and the other windows opened in the wrong monitor, on multi-monitors system.

New in LiveContactsView 1.10 (Dec 6, 2010)

  • When there is a problem with opening the contacts.edb database, LiveContactsView now displays a small description for the error numbr.
  • Added Drag & Drop support - You can now drag contacts.edb into the window of LiveContactsView in order to open it.

New in LiveContactsView 1.07 (Aug 16, 2010)

  • Added 'Add Header Line To CSV/Tab-Delimited File' option. When this option is turned on, the column names are added as the first line when you export to csv or tab-delimited file.
  • Fixed issue: removed the wrong encoding from the xml string, which caused problems to some xml viewers.

New in LiveContactsView 1.06 (Oct 7, 2009)

  • LiveContactsView will now display an error message with error code when it fails to read the contacts file

New in LiveContactsView 1.05 (Sep 15, 2009)

  • Added /sort command-line option.