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Get Collaboration Name and Email Address from .NET SDK

  • May 22, 2025
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Hi,

I am using the .NET SDK and am trying to retrieve the collaborations for a folder. How can I get the Name and Login of each collaborator?

I am running the following code:

BoxClient client = await GetBoxClient();
            BoxCollection<BoxCollaboration> collaborators = await client.FoldersManager.GetCollaborationsAsync(folderId);

Iterating through the collaborators.Entries, there is an AccessibleBy property. In debug mode, I can see the Name and Login, however I cannot access it directly in my code.

Has anyone had this issue, and if so, how do I fix it?

Thanks.

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    Hi

    The object you get in the entries will be a 'BoxEntity' as it could be either a user or a group. It has a 'Type' property you can check and the cast accordingly.

    Something like this

    collaborators.Entries.ForEach(collaboration =>
    {
       if(collaboration.AccessibleBy.Type.Equals("user")) {
          Console.WriteLine(((BoxUser)collaboration.AccessibleBy).Name + "::" + ((BoxUser)collaboration.AccessibleBy).Login);
       }
    });

    Best regards, Peter Christensen, Platform Solutions Engineer, Box

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