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UserProfile class

SharePoint 2013

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)

Syntax

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

Remarks

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

Examples

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

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; }

Thread safety

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

Reference

UserProfile members

Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles namespace

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