How to Update User Profile using C#

using (SPSite site = new SPSite(“http://portal”))

{
Microsoft.Office.Server.ServerContext Context = ServerContext.GetContext(site);
Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileManager Mngr = new UserProfileManager(Context);
Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfile Profile = Mngr.GetUserProfile(“litwareinc\ashishk”);
System.Console.Write(Profile[“Title”].Value.ToString());
Profile[“Title”].Value = “New Title”;
Profile.Commit();
}


Bingo, here ashishk Title is updated with "New Title"

How to retrieve account names from UserProfile

It is quite difficult to get accountnames from userprofile database. Using SDK, you can get the account by following example

using (SPSite site = new SPSite(http://portal/))
{
        ServerContext context = ServerContext.GetContext(site);
        UserProfileManager profileManager = new UserProfileManager(context);

        foreach (UserProfile profile in profileManager)
       {
             Console.WriteLine(profile[PropertyConstants.AccountName]);
       }
}

Data View conditional formatting using SharePoint Designer

Following article demonstrates how to use SharePoint Designer 2007 conditional formatting to format items in a SharePoint (MOSS 2007) list based on item metadata.

http://blog-sharepoint.blogspot.com/2009/05/data-view-conditional-formatting-using.html

How to send HTML email from Sharepoint with CC/BCC

public static void SendEmail(SPWeb web, string toEmail, string ccEmail,

string bccEmail,
string subject, string body)
{
   if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(toEmail))
  {
     StringDictionary headers = new StringDictionary
     {
        {"to", toEmail},
        {"cc", ccEmail},
        {"bcc", bccEmail},
        {"subject", subject},
        {"content-type", "text/html"}
     };
     SPUtility.SendEmail(web, headers, body);
   }
}

Interesting articles on various blogspot

I found various intereting articles on various blog as mentioned below

• How to change the SharePoint logo on every page?
• Add a counter to a SharePoint List Using an Event Receiver
• Making the layouts section of the create page easier to read (Nice one!)
• Add functions & events to SharePoint Form Fields
• Development Visual HowTo's
• Searching by Columns in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007
• The great power of delegate controls
• SPSiteDataQuery Samples for WSS v3
• Save performance when getting list items
• Overriding Core Javascript Functions in SharePoint
• How To: Modify the web.config file in SharePoint using SPWebConfigModification
• InfoPath - Get the current user without writing code
• Introducing the SharePoint Config Store for developers
• Delving into SharePoint 2007 Event Receivers
• SharePoint 2007 - EventHandling on Lists
• Make Your MOSS Workflow Forms Look Like Microsoft's
• SharePoint Security: The Evils of RunWithElevatedPrivilege (and our hero, SPUserToken)
• Show an “Operation in Progress” page from your code
• Logging Class in C#
• Site Definitions versus Site Templates and deciding on the correct customization approach