# Card Generation

In addition to VisualCard having the most basic card parsing functions, you can now generate cards based on a random name generation function employed by the Textify library that you can consult here:

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You can generate cards using the following two function overloads:

<table><thead><tr><th width="230">Function</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><code>GenerateCards()</code></td><td>Generates up to 100 cards by default (you can override this using the optional parameters)</td></tr><tr><td><code>GenerateCards(int cards)</code></td><td>Generates exactly a number of specified cards</td></tr></tbody></table>

It uses the list of first and the last names to generate random names. It occasionally adds one or both of telephone and e-mail information for one of home, work, or both. Once done, the generator lets VisualCard parse the generated card instance to verify that it's been generated correctly.