TeamFoundationIdentity.DisplayName Property

Full name of the identity for display purposes. The display name can come from the identity provider (Active Directory, ACS) or may have been set as a custom display name within TFS.

Namespace:  Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Framework.Client
Assembly:  Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client (in Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Property DisplayName As String
public string DisplayName { get; set; }
public:
property String^ DisplayName {
    String^ get ();
    void set (String^ value);
}
member DisplayName : string with get, set
function get DisplayName () : String 
function set DisplayName (value : String)

Property Value

Type: System.String

Remarks

If the identity provider does not supply a full name, and no custom display name is set, another property like account name or e-mail address will be used as the display name.

TFS 2010 servers may return a disambiguated identity, such as "John Smith (CONTOSO\jsmith)". TFS 2012 servers will not disambiguate identities with the same full name in this manner. However a user could set their custom display name to a similiar string.

.NET Framework Security

See Also

Reference

TeamFoundationIdentity Class

Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Framework.Client Namespace