Getting The Proper Name Value Instead Of Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.FieldUserValue

Question

I am using the following code to get users from a SharePoint list:

private ClientContext clientContext = new ClientContext(siteUrl);
private SP.List oList = clientContext.Web.Lists.GetByTitle("SharePoint List");
private CamlQuery camlQuery = new CamlQuery();
private ListItemCollection collListItem = oList.GetItems(camlQuery);
private ArrayList names = new ArrayList();
clientContext.Load(collListItem, items => items.Include(
        item => item["UserNames"]));
clientContext.ExecuteQuery();

foreach (ListItem oListItem in collListItem)
        {
            titles.Add(oListItem["UserNames"]);
        }

I am retrieving data from another columns, too, and I get those data just fine. But when it comes to names, the return value is the Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.FieldUserValue.

Any suggestions on how to get the actual usernames?

Answer 1

It's supposed to return FieldUserValue, you can get the users name or ID from the object. Here's a quick example:

FieldUserValue user = (FieldUserValue)listItem["Author"];
string name = user.LookupValue;