How to Get a Specific User Profile Property For a User Using CSOM in SharePoint 2013

In this article we will see how to programmatically get a specific user's profile property for a user using CSOM in SharePoint 2013.

Introduction

In SharePoint 2010 using the client-side object model we are unable to retrieve the user profile properties whereas in SharePoint 2013 they have added a new assembly for the user profile service. Using "Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.UserProfiles.dll" located in hive 15 of the ISAPI folder we are able to retrieve the user profile properties using CSOM.

(Client-Side Object Model). In this article we will see how to programmatically get a specific user's profile property for a user using CSOM in SharePoint 2013.

Prerequisites

The following are the prerequisites:

1. SharePoint 2013.
2. Visual Studio 2012.
3. User Profile Service application provisioned.
4. User profiles should be created.

I have created a user profile whose account name is "Pai". In this article we will see how to retrieve a specific user's profile property (Account Name) for the user "Pai" using the Client-Side Object Model.

Create a console application in Visual Studio 2012 using the following:

1. Open Visual Studio 2012 (Run as administrator).
2. Go to File=> New => Project.
3. Select Console Application in the Visual C# node from the installed templates.
   
   
   
4. Enter the Name and click on Ok.
5. In the Solution Explorer, right-click on the References folder and then click on Add Reference.
6. Add the following assemblies from hive 15 (C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\ISAPI).
   a. Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll
   b. Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime.dll
   c. Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.UserProfiles.dll
7. Open Program.cs file and replace the code with the following:

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using System.Threading.Tasks;

using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client;

using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.UserProfiles;

namespace UserProfileService

{

class Program

{

static void Main(string[] args)

{

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