How to Create VCards using this amazing plugin!

How to Create VCards?

Introduction

What type of file does your phone saves when u create a contact?

Well, the answer is: It stores it in a file format called vcard. Where vcard stands for "Virtual Contact Card".

At the time of writing this article., there are not whole lot of nuget packages that can do this.

I have Created a nuget package that helps you to achieve it..

So, in this tutorial, we are going to create a vcard using C#.

Create a vcard using C#

Let's get started by creating a new project in visual studio for Mac. Please Note that this package also work for visual studio for windows too..

Click on "new project" and select"Console Project" and click on next.

Give it a name and click on "Create"

Now right click on the solution and click on manage nuget packages.

Search for "VCards" and click on the third result.

Click on "Add Package" to install it in your project.

Then add the following namespaces to your project.

using VCard.Helpers; using VCard.Models;

Clear The Code in the main class and add the following code to create a new Contact.

Contact contact = new Contact { FirstName = "Satvik", LastName = "Rajnarayanan", Addresses = new System.Collections.Generic.List<Address>() { { new Address(){ Description="This is my Home Address..", Type="Home"} }, { new Address(){ Description="This is my Work Address", Type="Work"} } }, Phones = new System.Collections.Generic.List<Phone>() { { new Phone(){ Number="0000000000", Type="Home"} }, { new Phone(){ Number="0000000000", Type="Work"} } }, Email = "someone@examplemail.com", Organization = "CSharpCorner", Photo = "https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/App_Themes/CSharp/Images/SiteLogo.png", Title = "Satvik" };

We have created the contact. Now let's get the vcard using the following code..

string vcardcontents = FileHelper.CreateVCard(contact);

Now we have got the vcard as a string.

Let's write it into a file.

Make sure that the file extension is ".vcf"

string SavePath = System.IO.Path.Combine(AppContext.BaseDirectory, "output.vcf"); System.IO.File.WriteAllText(SavePath, vcardcontents); Console.WriteLine("File saved at " + SavePath.Trim());

So the full code on the main class looks like this.

class MainClass { public static void Main(string[] args) { Contact contact = new Contact { FirstName = "Satvik", LastName = "Rajnarayanan", Addresses = new System.Collections.Generic.List<Address>() { { new Address(){ Description="This is my Home Address..", Type="Home"} }, { new Address(){ Description="This is my Work Address", Type="Work"} } }, Phones = new System.Collections.Generic.List<Phone>() { { new Phone(){ Number="0000000000", Type="Home"} }, { new Phone(){ Number="0000000000", Type="Work"} } }, Email = "someone@examplemail.com", Organization = "CSharpCorner", Photo = "https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/App_Themes/CSharp/Images/SiteLogo.png", Title = "Satvik" }; string vcardcontents = FileHelper.CreateVCard(contact); string SavePath = System.IO.Path.Combine(AppContext.BaseDirectory, "output.vcf"); System.IO.File.WriteAllText(SavePath, vcardcontents); Console.WriteLine("File saved at " + SavePath.Trim()); } }

Summary

In this article, we have got the knowledge of how to create a vcard using C#.

Please download my nuget package which is used in this article..

Link: https://www.nuget.org/packages/VCard/ 

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