This tip demonstrates how to find different kinds of hierarchy existing within user profiles.

For example

You can find immediate manager of a particular user.
All the users who reports the same manager.
All the managers above in the chain for a particular user

Find Manager for currently logged in user.

private void GetManegerProfile()

 {

 SPSite site;

 SPWeb web;

 SPServiceContext serviceContext;

 UserProfileManager profiles;

 UserProfile profile;

try

 {

    using (site = new SPSite(SPContext.Current.Web.Url))

    {

      using (web = site.OpenWeb())

      {

        serviceContext = SPServiceContext.GetContext(site);

        profiles = new UserProfileManager(serviceContext);

 

        //Getting the profile of logged in user.

       profile = profiles.GetUserProfile(web.CurrentUser.LoginName);

 

      //Getting profile of the manager of the logged in user.

      profile = profile.GetManager();

      }

    }
 

  }

catch { }

}

Find all the user who reports the same manager as logged in user.

private void GetManegerProfile()

{

SPSite site;

SPWeb web;

SPServiceContext serviceContext;

UserProfileManager profiles;

UserProfile profile;

List<UserProfile> peers;


 

try

{

  using (site = new SPSite(SPContext.Current.Web.Url))

  {

   using (web = site.OpenWeb())

    {

      serviceContext = SPServiceContext.GetContext(site);

      profiles = new UserProfileManager(serviceContext);

 

      //Getting the profile of logged in user.

      profile = profiles.GetUserProfile(web.CurrentUser.LoginName);

 

      //Getting peers of the logged in user.

      peers = new List<UserProfile>(profile .GetPeers());

      }

    }
 

  }

catch { }

}

Find all the managers above in the chain for the logged in user.

private void GetManegerProfile()

{

SPSite site;

SPWeb web;

SPServiceContext serviceContext;

UserProfileManager profiles;

UserProfile profile;

List<UserProfile> managers;

try

{

using (site = new SPSite(SPContext.Current.Web.Url))

{

using (web = site.OpenWeb())

  {

   serviceContext = SPServiceContext.GetContext(site);

   profiles = new UserProfileManager(serviceContext);

 

   //Getting the profile of logged in user.

   profile = profiles.GetUserProfile(web.CurrentUser.LoginName);

 

   //Getting manager profiles of the logged in user.

    managers =new List<UserProfile>( profile.GetManagers());

    }

  }

}

catch { }

}