Do we have MySite details in webservice sharepoint 2010

Question

Do we have My Site details available in web-service share point 2010.

@ David Lozzi: i want to fetch the data of "About me" using Web Service. I need to display the data in the DataView. Is there any web service which provide the Mysite details to display in Dataview.

Answer 1

According to you later edit, you actually want to display information from the User Profile Services. "About me" is a field of the User Profile.

Yes, there is a webservice, which can return you User Profile data. It is located at http://<site URL>/_vti_bin/userprofileservice.asmx. Here is a code sample, which displays you all the User Profile properties. It assumes, that you have added the above web service as a Web reference to your Visual Studio project:

static void GetUserProfilePropertyData()
{
    UserProfileWebService.localhost.PropertyData[] properties = 
    myService.GetUserProfileByName("domainname\\username");
    for (int i = 0; i < properties.Length; i++)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(properties[i].Name);
        Console.WriteLine(properties[i].Value);
    }

    Console.Read();
}

But if your code runs on the Sharepoint farm, I think you should consider accessing the User Profile Service by the object model.

using ( SPSite site = new SPSite("site url"))
{
    ServerContext context = ServerContext.GetContext(site);
    UserProfileManager profileManager = new UserProfileManager(context);
    UserProfile profile = profileManager.GetUserProfile(@"domainuser");
    // you got user profile object. now you can use any property of it.
    // I think for the AboutMe field it would be
    var aboutMe = profile["AboutMe"] as string;
}

I hope this is what you were looking for.

Cheers!