title: How to get the birthday from a windows phone 8.1 (NOT Silverlight) contact
body: <p>I am trying to populate a listview with all my phone contact's birthdays but unfortunately it seems more difficult than I initially thought - or I am missing something big... </p>
  
  <p>Concerning Windows Phone 8.1 Silverlight it seems to be <a href="http://biranchipanda.com/blog/c-snippet-to-get-contacts-from-windows-phone-with-birthday-on-date/" rel="nofollow">easy</a> as there is a Birthday property. But how to get the birthday of a contact in Windows Phone 8.1 Runtime? </p>
  
  <p>Why isn't there a property? It could be so easy... </p>
  
  <pre><code>var contactStore = await ContactManager.RequestStoreAsync();
  var contacts = await contactStore.FindContactsAsync();
  
  foreach (var contact in contacts) 
  {   
     // var birthday = contact.Birthday;  // unfortunately not possible 
  }
  </code></pre>