SharePoint Stef (@vanHooijdonk)

Here at Tam Tam we are currently working on implementing SP2010 as our Portal and Customer Portal Platform.

We wanted to have all our Employee profiles to include pictures:

SP2010 stores Profile Pictures in the MySite Host. There is a Picture Library there called “User Photos”. Inside there is a Folder named Profile Pictures. If it is not, it just means no one has uploaded a Profile Picture yet.

Each profile picture comes in three flavours: _LThumb, _MThumb and _SThumb. SP2010 does this for you, through the Profile Property Editor for Profile Pictures.

So, with the help of Reflector, I wrote a small tool that would import all our profile pictures and update the user profiles. I created a small Forms application that would import the profile pictures, based on username.jpg pictures.

The magic hapens here, this code is by Microsoft actually, not me:

using (Bitmap bitmap = new Bitmap(num3, num4, PixelFormat.Format32bppArgb))
            {
                using (Graphics graphics = Graphics.FromImage(bitmap))
                {
                    graphics.CompositingMode = CompositingMode.SourceCopy;
                    graphics.CompositingQuality = CompositingQuality.HighQuality;
                    graphics.InterpolationMode = InterpolationMode.HighQualityBicubic;
                    graphics.DrawImage(original, 0, 0, num3, num4);
                    using (MemoryStream stream2 = new MemoryStream())
                    {
                        bitmap.Save(stream2, ImageFormat.Jpeg);
                        stream2.Position = 0L;
                        return folder.Files.Add(fileName, stream2, true);
                    }
                }
            }

If you want you can use the tool and the code by going here. It is a research project, not a product!

And now we have profile pictures for Tweets:

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