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996 Part IX: Maintaining a Server in Windows SharePoint Services
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Figure 36-3 Resources returned using the search Web service
By default, all portal site sources are searched. To get a list of the sources that
are available to be searched, you can use the GetPortalSearchInfo method of the
search Web service.
Again, there are many Web service methods that start with Begin and have
associated methods that start with End. These methods can be used to complete that
functionality asynchronously.
UserProfileService Web Service
You created a proxy to the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 User Profile Web service
named UserProfileWebService in the “Visual Studio .NET Setup” section of this chapter.
Basically, this Web service lets you retrieve user profiles and their schema using a
variety of different user IDs: GUID, index, and user account name. GUID and index
will be useful when SharePoint Portal Server provides those tokens to us as the ID
for a user.
Again, you will use the same set of controls for this sample application as you did
for the both the AreaService Web Service and the search Web Service examples. For this
example, allow the user to initially type an account name into the text box. When the
user clicks the button, you will attempt to retrieve the account name specified in the
text box from SharePoint Portal Server 2003. You will save all successful searches in
the tree view and present all profile details in the list view. If the user’s profile is not
found, you will present a message in the list view indicating that status. If the user clicks
on a previously successful account in the tree view, you will re-retrieve the profile
using the GUID that you saved when the profile was initially retrieved.
As with the previous Web services, you need to provide credentials to the
UserProfileService Web service. So, you will use the getUserCredentials function created
earlier in this chapter to help with this functionality.
Place the following code in the button1_Click function:
private void button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
//1. Establish a proxy to the UserProfileService Web Service
UserProfileWebService.UserProfileService userProfileWS =
new UserProfileWebService.UserProfileService();