Get User Profile Details Programmatically - SharePoint

In WSS, there is a basic list called the ‘User Information List’ which holds some profile details about the users themselves. These details can be viewed/edited from the ‘My Settings’ screen.



WSS holds the following user details:

• Account (Login Name)


• Name (Display Name)


• E-Mail


• About Me


• Picture


• Department


• Job Title


• SIP Address

You can get a reference to any of these properties in code simply by querying the list with the ID of the required SPUser:

e.g.

using (SPSite Site = new SPSite(“Site URL”))

{
using (SPWeb Web = Site.OpenWeb())
{

SPList UserInfoList = Web.Lists[“User Information List”];

SPUser User = Web.Users.GetByID(1); – Put the User ID Here

SPListItem UserItem = UserInfoList.GetItemById(User.ID);

UserItem[“Department”] = “Department Name”;

}

}

Using this list you can set any of the values as required or simply retrieve the stored values. I used the above to get a reference to the ‘Picture’ which is stored as a URL.