Not able to create UserProfileManager in Console application

Question

I am accessing the User Profile Property in my console application to view the current logged in user's department, where "Department" is the property of user profile.

To access the property I referred this post. My code is:

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        using (SPSite siteCollection = new SPSite("http://.............."))
        {
            using (SPWeb site = siteCollection.OpenWeb())
            {
                SPUser spUser = site.CurrentUser;
                ServerContext serverContext = ServerContext.GetContext(siteCollection);
                UserProfileManager userProfileManager = new UserProfileManager(serverContext);

                UserProfile profile = userProfileManager.GetUserProfile(spUser.LoginName);
                Console.WriteLine("Current Logged In User Department:" + profile["Department"]);
            }
        }
    }
}

I am getting the error at line: UserProfileManager userProfileManager = new UserProfileManager(serverContext); that "UserProfileApplicationNotAvailableException was unhandled".

What am I missing ?

Answer 1

Few days back, I was getting "No User Profile Application available to service the request. Contact your farm administrator" error, I made sure that the User Profile Application was running correctly and it was. I already clicked on the “Administrators” button in the toolbar of the Service Application to give me Full Control, but it still wasn’t working.

Then I noticed that there is also a ‘Permissions’ button for the created user profile service in the "Manager Service Application" page. I clicked the button and saw that my current user wasn’t in the permissions box. I gave my user ‘Full Control’ and now everything works great from the console application.

Hope this helps you.