In Team Foundation Server 2015, we introduced the concept of an
_identity field
_. A field is considered to be an identity field if it has any rules on it that relate to identities, such as
\<ValidUser />. This concept enables us to fix issues that involve duplicate display names. Previously, if two users had the same name, you couldn't differentiate between them. Identity fields let us store the DisplayPart as
'display name
\<email or domain\alias>.
' For example, instead of
'Sean Contoso
', the DisplayPart is now stored as
'Sean Contoso
\<[email protected]>.
'
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