Get user colleagues with Sharepoint 2010 object model

Getting colleagues for the current user from user's user profile is much easier.

Lets look at an example -

ServerContext siteContext = ServerContext.GetContext(siteCollection);

UserProfileManager oUserProfileManager = new UserProfileManager(siteContext);

UserProfile oUserProfile = oUserProfileManager.GetUserProfile(_spUser.LoginName);

foreach (Colleague colleague in oUserProfile.Colleagues.GetItems())
{
//Get colleagues
}