Loop through SharePoint Profiles

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:54:19 +0000

Simple code sample showing how to retrieve profiles and their properties from a SharePoint site.

Note:

This code is relevant only if you’re running it on the SharePoint box, ie: web part, console app. If you need to access profiles outside of the box, use web services, as detailed by Michael Bowersox’s post.
Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles reference.
Instantiate the UserProfileManager with your site context.
PropertyConstants for retrieval of pre-defined properties. Every profile has a handful of standard properties, but check to make sure the property contains data to avoid a possible null reference exception.
Replace PropertyConstants with custom property name to get your custom properties.

using Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles;

// Code Block for Profile Loop
using (SPSite site = new SPSite(spURL))
{
    try
    {
        // Get our context and the profile manager object
        ServerContext context = ServerContext.GetContext(site);
        UserProfileManager profileManager = new UserProfileManager(context);

        // Define our holder strings
        string firstName = string.Empty, lastName = string.Empty;
        string department = string.Empty, customProperty = string.Empty;

        // Loop through each user in the profile manager
        foreach (UserProfile user in profileManager)
        {
            // grab the first and last name
            firstName = user[PropertyConstants.FirstName].Count > 0 ? user[PropertyConstants.FirstName].ToString() : string.Empty;
            lastName = user[PropertyConstants.LastName].Count > 0 ? user[PropertyConstants.LastName].ToString() : string.Empty;

            // grab the department
            department = user[PropertyConstants.Department].Count > 0 ? user[PropertyConstants.Department].ToString() : string.Empty;

            // grab a custom property
            customProperty = user["Custom Property Name"].Count > 0 ? user["Custom Property Name"].ToString() : string.Empty;
         }
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        HandleException(ex);
    }
}