UserGroup.GetUserInfo Method

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Returns information about the specified user.

Web Service: Users and GroupsWeb Reference: http://<Site>/_vti_bin/usergroup.asmx

Syntax

<SoapDocumentMethodAttribute("http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/directory/GetUserInfo", RequestNamespace:="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/directory/", ResponseNamespace:="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/directory/", Use:=SoapBindingUse.Literal, ParameterStyle:=SoapParameterStyle.Wrapped)> _
Public Function GetUserInfo ( _
    userLoginName As String _
) As XmlNode

Dim instance As UserGroup
Dim userLoginName As String
Dim returnValue As XmlNode

returnValue = instance.GetUserInfo(userLoginName)

[SoapDocumentMethodAttribute("http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/directory/GetUserInfo", RequestNamespace="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/directory/", ResponseNamespace="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/directory/", Use=SoapBindingUse.Literal, ParameterStyle=SoapParameterStyle.Wrapped)] 
public XmlNode GetUserInfo (
    string userLoginName
)

Parameters

  • userLoginName
    A string that contains the user name (DOMAIN\User_Alias) of the user.

Return Value

An XML fragment in the following form that can be assigned to a System.Xml.XmlNode object.

<GetUserInfo xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/directory/">
   <User ID="4" Sid="S-1-5-21-2127521184-1604012920-1887927527-34577" Name="User1_Display_Name" 
      LoginName="DOMAIN\User1_Alias" Email="User1_E-mail" 
      Notes="Notes" IsSiteAdmin="False" IsDomainGroup="False" />
</GetUserInfo>

Example

The following code example displays information about the specified user. This example requires that a using (Visual C#) or Imports (Visual Basic) directive be included for the System.Xml namespace.

Dim usrgrpService As New Web_Reference_Folder_Name.UserGroup()
usrgrpService.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials

Dim ndUser As XmlNode = usrgrpService.GetUserInfo("DOMAIN\User_Alias")

MessageBox.Show(ndUser.OuterXml)

Web_Reference_Folder_Name.UserGroup usrgrpService = new Web_Reference_Folder_Name.UserGroup();
usrgrpService.Credentials= System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;

XmlNode ndUser = usrgrpService.GetUserInfo("DOMAIN\\User_Alias");

MessageBox.Show(ndUser.OuterXml);

See Also

Reference

UserGroup Class
UserGroup Members
Users and Groups Web Service