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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)

public:
property String^ DisplayName {
	String^ get ();
	void set (String^ value);
}

Property Value

Type: System::String

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.

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