User Profiles: Search in User Profiles

Searching for User Profiles that match a given value is, actually, very easy.

Here's a quick example:

public ProfileBase[] GetUserProfilesByWordByProfileManager(string searchByValue)

{

ProfileBase[] profileBase = null;

try

{

var serviceContext = SPServiceContext.Current;

var userProfileManager = new UserProfileManager(serviceContext);

profileBase = userProfileManager.Search(searchByValue);

return profileBase;

}

catch (Exception innerException)

{

throw innerException;

}

}

You can always cast the ProfileBase to a UserProfile:

UserProfile userProfile = (UserProfile)currentPB;

Good Luck ;)