How to programmatically retrieve SharePoint My-Sites users' blog posts using C#?

Question

I managed to access user profile content:

    using (SPSite ospSite = new SPSite("http://localhost:80/"))
    {
        ServerContext s = ServerContext.GetContext(ospSite);
        UserProfileManager profileManager = new UserProfileManager(s);
        UserProfile p = profileManager.GetUserProfile("some_user");

        // e.g. responsibility retrieval
        var r = p["SPS-Responsibility"];
        var responsibilities = r.GetTaxonomyTerms();
    }

But I don't know how to access users' blog posts collection.

Any advice?

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 27 '11 at 15:02

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Use the PersonalSite property of UserProfile object to retrieve the user's My Site.

In the SPSite loop through, child SPWeb objects which are of template "Blog". Check out the templates names here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/richin/archive/2011/07/04/sharepoint-2010-site-template-names.aspx

Once you find the blog site, you can simply access the items in "Posts" List of the SPWeb object.

answered Jul 27 '11 at 15:02

Madhur Ahuja

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As soon as I'm trying to iterate through child SPWeb objects by: `profile.PersonalSite.OpenWeb().Webs` or `profile.PersonalSite.AllWebs` I'm getting `System.UnauthorizedAccessException` exception even though I'm running the process as Administrator. Any advice? – vovafeldman Jul 29 '11 at 20:30
Just found the solution, just need to execute it with elevated privileges: `SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(() => { _some.code.here_ });` – vovafeldman Jul 29 '11 at 20:44

How to programmatically retrieve SharePoint My-Sites users' blog posts using C#?

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