UserProfile class

Represents a user profile for a person in the user profile database.

System.Object
  Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.ProfileBase
    Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfile

Namespace:  Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles
Assembly:  Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles (in Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.dll)

'Declaration
<SharePointPermissionAttribute(SecurityAction.LinkDemand, ObjectModel := True)> _
<SharePointPermissionAttribute(SecurityAction.InheritanceDemand, ObjectModel := True)> _
Public Class UserProfile _
    Inherits ProfileBase
'Usage
Dim instance As UserProfile

[SharePointPermissionAttribute(SecurityAction.LinkDemand, ObjectModel = true)]
[SharePointPermissionAttribute(SecurityAction.InheritanceDemand, ObjectModel = true)]
public class UserProfile : ProfileBase

The Commit method must be called whenever a property of this class is changed or all changes will be lost.

The following code example shows the use of the UserProfile class.

Public Sub UserProfileSample() 
' Get SPSite and service Context         
Dim strUrl As String = "http://SampleName"          
Dim site as SPSite = new SPSite(strUrl)          
Dim serviceContext as SPServiceContext = SPServiceContext.GetContext(site)          'initialize user profile manager object          
Dim upm As New UserProfileManager(serviceContext)          
'Create user sample          
Dim sAccount As String = "mydomain\myalias"          
If Not upm.UserExists(sAccount) Then             upm.CreateUserProfile(sAccount)          
End If          
'To set prop values on user profile          
Dim u As UserProfile = upm.GetUserProfile(sAccount)          
Dim sPropName As String = "PreferredName"          
u(sPropName) = sAccount          
u.Commit()           
'Remove user profile sample          
upm.RemoveUserProfile(sAccount)       
End Sub 'UserProfileSample         
Public Sub CreatePersonalSiteSample()          
' Get SPSite and service Context         
Dim strUrl As String = "http://SampleName"          
Dim site as SPSite = new SPSite(strUrl)          
Dim serviceContext as SPServiceContext = SPServiceContext.GetContext(site)          'initialize user profile manager object          
Dim upm As New UserProfileManager(serviceContext)          
Dim sAccount As String = "mydomain\myalias"          
Dim u As UserProfile = upm.GetUserProfile(sAccount)          u.CreatePersonalSite()          
Dim mysite As SPSite = u.PersonalSite          
Dim myurl As String = u.PersonalUrl       
End Sub 
'CreatePersonalSiteSample

public void UserProfileSample() 
{ 
// Get SPSite and service context from string 
strUrl = "http://SampleName"; 
SPSite site = new SPSite(strUrl); 
SPServiceContext serviceContext = SPServiceContext.GetContext(site); 
// Initialize user profile config manager object 
UserProfileManager upm = new UserProfileManager(serviceContext); 
//Create user sample string sAccount = "mydomain\\myalias"; 
if (!upm.UserExists(sAccount)) upm.CreateUserProfile(sAccount);  
//To set prop values on user profile 
UserProfile u = upm.GetUserProfile(sAccount); 
string sPropName = "PreferredName"; 
u[sPropName] = sAccount; 
u.Commit();  
//remove user profile sample 
upm.RemoveUserProfile(sAccount); }  
public void CreatePersonalSiteSample() { 
// Get SPSite and service context from string 
strUrl = "http://SampleName"; 
SPSite site = new SPSite(strUrl); 
SPServiceContext serviceContext = SPServiceContext.GetContext(site); 
// Initialize user profile config manager object 
UserProfileManager upm = new UserProfileManager(serviceContext); 
string sAccount = "mydomain\\myalias"; 
UserProfile u = upm.GetUserProfile(sAccount); 
u.CreatePersonalSite(); 
SPSite mysite = u.PersonalSite; 
string myurl = u.PersonalUrl; }

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

UserProfile members

Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles namespace