Some SharePoint Portal OM basic samples

Refer to blogs.msdn.com/dwinter/archive/2005/03/01/383306.aspx (Portal OM) and blogs.msdn.com/dwinter/archive/2005/02/15/373076.aspx (WSS OM) for setup if you are not familiar with creating a SharePoint OM application.

We'll start with a C# Windows Form application. I am using Microsoft.SharePoint, Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal, Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.Alerts, Microsft.SharePoint.Portal.UserProfiles, Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.Topology in these samples. Use the same kind of setup in your designer that I showed in the initial Portal OM post.

To keep up with how I showed SPSite.Delete and mass alert management when introducing WSS OM, here are some simple examples of similiar tasks on the Portal side of the house.
Here is a delete portal:

private

void button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
TopologyManager myTopologyManager = new TopologyManager();
PortalSite myPortalSite = myTopologyManager.PortalSites[new Uri(textBox1.Text)];
try
{
//You can also specify a bool of true here if you wish to remove the databases
myTopologyManager.PortalSites.Delete(myPortalSite);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
listBox2.Items.Add(ex.Message);
}
}

Here is some alerts based code just to get you in the right direction. If you knew a specific alert ID you could operate against it--or you could enumerate all, look for something specific and then act accordingly. Here is an example on doing a mass removal. I have never had to use this... I doubt I would want to because I would want to enumerate and have some more control.

//using Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.Alerts
Administration myAlertsAdministration = new Administration();
myAlertsAdministration.DeleteAllSubscriptions();

Here is a quick sample on enumerating alerts within Portal and doing a variety of non-specific tasks (which of course you wouldn't do all at once). Here I get to show one of the many entrypoints that utilizes PortalContext.

//using Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.UserProfiles
UserProfileManager myUserProfileManager = new UserProfileManager(myPortalContext);
UserProfile tempUserProfile = myUserProfileManager.GetUserProfile(textBox1.Text);
foreach (UserProfile myUserProfile in myUserProfileManager)
{
myUserProfile.Alerts.ActivateAll();
myUserProfile.Alerts.DeactivateAll();
myUserProfile.Alerts.DeleteAllResults();
myUserProfile.Alerts.DeleteAll();
}

As you can imagine, there are a number of possibilities here in what and how you can accomplish your specific task. You could even add alerts programatically with a little finesse.