An error was encountered while retrieving the user profile (sharpoint 2010 development) - Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserNotFoundException

Question

Hi,

To retrieve UserProfile I am using following code for sharepoint 2010 using vs 2010:

    private UserInfo GetUserInfo()
    {
      UserInfo userInfo = new UserInfo();

        SPServiceContext ctx = SPServiceContext.Current;     //ServerContext.GetContext("SharedServices1");
        UserProfileManager profileManager = new UserProfileManager(ctx);
        UserProfile profile = profileManager.GetUserProfile(@"" + SPContext.Current.Web.CurrentUser.LoginName);
        if (profile["WorkEmail"] != null && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(profile["WorkEmail"].ToString()))
          userInfo.EmailAddress = profile["WorkEmail"].ToString();
    }

I am getting following error at line -->

 UserProfile profile = profileManager.GetUserProfile(@"" + SPContext.Current.Web.CurrentUser.LoginName);

ERROR: Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserNotFoundException: An error was encountered while retrieving the user profile.

I am able to see the userPofile against my Active Directory connection I made. Also I am able to manage User profile from Central Admninistration -> Manage Service Applications -> User Profile Service Application -> Manage User Profiles (when i type an Active Directory user and Click Find it returns me that user profile and I am able to update from there with same credentials when used by code it returns me the above error.)

Please let me know how to get User Profile using code above ?

Shamshad Ali.

Answer 1

Fixed this by replacing the change in Error Line as:

UserProfile profile = profileManager.GetUserProfile(SPContext.Current.Web.CurrentUser.RawSid);

This worked without any problem....

Shamshad Ali

Answer 2

hi Shamshad,

Your solution didn't work for me... Any other way to make it work?

 thanks

Answer 3

HI,

I got the same problem...how did u resolved this issue?

I am doing like this:

SPSite site = SPContext.Current.Site;
SPServiceContext svcContext = SPServiceContext.GetContext(site);
UserProfileManager uspManager = new UserProfileManager(svcContext);
string accountName = domainName +"\\"+fname + "." + lname;                
UserProfile userProfile = uspManager.GetUserProfile(accountName);

Thanks,

PVSAVSG.

Answer 4

hi,

How do u do it if its in mysites and the details of the user to get is not of who logged in but the ones who we are seeing?