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ContactCard control

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Core concepts

Learn about the properties of the Microsoft Lync 2013 ContactCard control.

Applies to: Lync 2013

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Control overview
Members
Code example
Additional resources

Control overview

Use the ContactCard control to show basic or detailed contact and organization information for contacts. This control displays presence and availability of colleagues and gives users the ability to start instant messaging sessions, voice calls, file transfers, application sharing sessions, or conference calls.

ContactCard expanded

ContactCard

Members

Notable ContactCard control public properties and events relating to unified communications appear in the following table. For a full list, see Lync 2013 class libraries reference.

Property or event

Description

DisplayName property

Gets the display name of the currently logged-in user.

SelectedTabIndex property

Gets or sets the index of the tab item to display when the Contact Card is expanded.

ExpanderVisibility property

Gets the Expander Button visibility state.

ContextualInformation property

Gets or sets a data structure that contains information used to customize the information that accompanies messages. For more information about using contextual information, see Contextual Lync conversations.

Source property

Gets or sets the contact to display. Valid types include the Contact object, DistributionGroup object, and String.

  • If the value is a string that does not contain the sip: or tel: prefix, the control performs a search, using the string specified as a search criteria, and loads the first contact in the result set matching the specified string. This behavior is not deterministic and yields the slowest performance.

  • If the value is a SIP URI string qualified by the sip: or tel: prefix, the contact is loaded using an exact match of the specified URI. This behavior is deterministic and yields better performance.

  • If the value is a Contact or DistributionGroup object, it's used as-is. This behavior is deterministic and yields the best performance.

IsExpanded property

Gets or sets a bool value, which indicates whether or not the details section of the ContactCard control is expanded.

Code example

The following example can be used for Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application development.

<StackPanel>
  <controls:ContactCard Source="sip:elise@contoso.com" />
</StackPanel>

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