How to restrict photo size in My Site Edit Profile page

Here is the technical approach to achieve this functionality.

My Site’s Edit Profile page uploads photos to Picture Library under user’s My Site. Event Receiver will be developed and attached to that library. That Event Receiver will check configuration value from web configuration file and validate with picture’s size which user will upload. It will throw an exception if condition doesn’t match.

One Feature will be developed to attach event receiver for Picture Library and it will be activated when user creates My Site. One console application will developed to activate that feature for all existing My Sites.

JS code will be added to SelectPicture2.aspx page to convert SharePoint generic error with configured error message. This message will be configured in web configuration file. Select Picture page calls by Edit profile page to upload picture.