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# Contact Members

Contact overview

#### Public Instance Properties

Blocked | Get or set whether this person is blocked. When someone is 'blocked' this means he or she is on your blocked list.
ClientCapacities | A list of all capacities of the remote client.
ClientData | The client programmer can specify custom data related to this contact in this property
ContactGroup | The contactgroup this contact belongs to. You can change this by setting a new ContactGroup object.
DisplayImage | The user display image of the contact. Null if not present
Emoticons | A collection of all emoticons used by this contact
HomePhone | Telephonenumber at home
Mail | The contact's unique e-mail adress. Used to identify a Microsoft Passport account
MobileAccess | Indicates whether the contact allows contacts to send mobile messages.
MobileDevice | Indicates whether the contact has a mobile device enabled.
MobilePhone | Mobile phonenumber
Name | The username (screenname) of this contact
NSMessageHandler | The notification message handler which controls this contact object
OnAllowedList | Indicates whether this contact is on the allowed list
OnBlockedList | Indicates whether this contact is on the blocked list. When a contact is on your blocked list it can't see your presence status or send messages to you.
OnForwardList | Indicates whether this contact is on the forward list
Online | Indicates whether the specified is online. It will return true for all presence states (online, away, busy, etc) except PresenceStatus.Offline
OnReverseList | Indicates whether this contact is on the reversed list. Obviously this field is read-only because the other client decides whether he accepts you or not.
Status | Retrieve the current status of this contact. It defaults to offline
WorkPhone | Telephonenumber at work

#### Public Instance Methods

Equals (inherited from Object) | Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object.
GetHashCode | Used to compare contacts. This returns the Mail-field hashcode.
GetType (inherited from Object) | Gets the Type of the current instance.
RemoveFromList | Removes the contact from both the forward and allowed list.
ToString (inherited from Object) | Returns a String that represents the current Object.
UpdateScreenName | Request the server to send us the current screenname for this contact After receiving the screenname it will raise the ScreenNameChanged event

#### Public Instance Events

ContactBlocked | Called when this user has been blocked
ContactGroupChanged | Called when this user has been moved to another contactgroup
ContactOffline | Called when this contact goes offline
ContactOnline | Called when this contact goes online
ContactUnBlocked | Called when this user has been unblocked
ScreenNameChanged | Called when the username of this contact has changed
StatusChanged | Called when the user changed from state

#### Protected Instance Constructors

Contact Constructor | Constructor.

#### Protected Instance Methods

Finalize (inherited from Object) | Allows an Object to attempt to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before the Object is reclaimed by garbage collection.
MemberwiseClone (inherited from Object) | Creates a shallow copy of the current Object.

#### See Also

Contact Class | XihSolutions.DotMSN Namespace