SPServices: What About Deprecation of the SOAP Web Services?

SPServices user JSdream asked a question in the SPServices Discussions on Codeplex the other day that’s worthy of a more prominent response. Should we, who use SPServices, be concerned at all with Microsoft recommending not to use either the ASMX web services in SharePoint 2013 (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj164060.aspx#DeprecatedAPIs) or the owssvr.dll (I used this one a lot…

Bug in SharePoint’s Lists Web Service with GetListItems?

I was trying to track down some odd behavior in SharePoint’s Lists Web Service tonight, and I think I’ve found what I can only call a bug.  Here’s the scenario.  All of these conditions must apply::  Using the GetListItems operation Querying a list which has a required multi-select column Specifying columns to return in the…