_SharingItem.AddBusinessCard Method

Appends contact information based on the Electronic Business Card (EBC) associated with the specified ContactItem object to the SharingItem object.

Namespace:  Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook
Assembly:  Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook (in Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
<DispIdAttribute()> _
Sub AddBusinessCard ( _
    contact As ContactItem _
)
'Usage
Dim instance As _SharingItem
Dim contact As ContactItem

instance.AddBusinessCard(contact)

[DispIdAttribute()]
void AddBusinessCard(
    ContactItem contact
)

Parameters

• contact
  Type: Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.ContactItem

  The contact item from which to obtain the business card information.

Remarks

This method adds contact information, generated from the information stored in the ContactItem object, to the existing SharingItem object. The information included depends on the value of the BodyFormat property for the SharingItem object:

Property value	Result
olFormatPlain	A vCard (.vcf) file is created and added to the Attachments collection of the SharingItem object.
olFormatRichText	A vCard (.vcf) file is created and added to the Attachments collection of the SharingItem object.
olFormatHTML	An image of the business card is generated and included in the Body property of the SharingItem object, and a vCard (.vcf) file is created and added to the Attachments collection of the SharingItem object.

Note

The attached vCard file contains only the contact information included in the Electronic Business Card associated with the ContactItem object. Any contact information not displayed in the Electronic Business Card is excluded from the vCard file.

See Also

Reference

_SharingItem Interface

_SharingItem Members

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook Namespace