Kentico UserInfoProvider not working as expected in a console app

Question

This code works fine within a Kentico website:

var users = UserInfoProvider.GetUsers();
for (int x = 0; x < users.Count(); x++
{
    UserInfo currentUser = us         


        

Answer 1

Before you start working with Kentico CMS API from an external application make sure you call the following lines:

CMS.DataEngine.ConnectionHelper.ConnectionString = "your connection string";
CMS.Base.SystemContext.WebApplicationPhysicalPath = Application.StartupPath;
CMS.DataEngine.CMSApplication.Init();

Then, you'll be also able to use UserInfoProvider.GetUsers() object query instead of using DataQuery.Execute().