Custom view/edit user profile pages in SharePoint Foundation

Question

We've been developing some app for SharePoint Foundation 2010 only and have some problems with profiles/users after sharepoint 2010 dev - whew is not User Profile Service Application in SPF 2010 :)

We want to add some new properties to user profile, but as I said where is no user profile service.

So, what is the best way to work with user profiles in SPF 2010 by c# code and can we replace standart edit/display pages for user profile or it isn't good way?

Answer 1

What we did for a client is override the action a link to a userprofile has by using a control override (delegatecontrol). You could have the link redirect to a custom Contacts list in your site that holds all your users and then add extra properties to that list.

Feature / Elements xml:

<Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
  <Control Id="ProfileRedirection" Sequence="90" ControlClass="CLASSNAME" ControlAssembly="ASSEMBLYNAME" />
</Elements>

Control class code:

using System;
using System.Globalization;
using System.Security.Permissions;
using System.Web.UI;
using Microsoft.SharePoint;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Security;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls;

namespace Intratuin.IntraWeb.WebControls.Profile
{
  public class ProfileRedirect : UserControl, IFormDelegateControlSource
  {
    [SharePointPermission(SecurityAction.LinkDemand, ObjectModel = true)]
    public void OnFormInit(object objOfInterest)
    {
      var user = objOfInterest as SPListItem;
      if (user != null)
      {
        RedirectIfNecessary(user);
      }
    }

    [SharePointPermission(SecurityAction.LinkDemand, ObjectModel = true)]
    public void OnFormSave(object objOfInterest)
    {
    }

    private void RedirectIfNecessary(SPItem user)
    {
      SPUtility.Redirect("DispFormOfYourContactsList", SPRedirectFlags.Default, Context, string.Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, "id={0}", user["ID"])); //This is Case Sensitive
    }
  }
}