Here is a question that came in from my blog today. My company is starting to plan to migrate to SP 2013 and I just found out that the design and split view is not included in SP Designer. This is going to be absolutely devasting for us as this is really the only way…
Data View Web Parts (DVWPs) are still my favorite tool in my SharePoint toolbox. Whenever I can use them to get the server to do the heavy lifting before the page is rendered, I do. jQuery and all of the fancy template libraries out there are grand, but in most cases it introduces a lag for…
There was an interesting question over in the MSDN Forums the other day that I struggled to answer. It was a headscratcher, so I had to figure it out. In the thread, emfuentes27 wanted to know why s/he saw different results in SharePoint Designer than in the browser when using this formula: Not only had…
I’ve just released a new version of the SPXSLT Codeplex Project, version 0.0.9. In this release, I added one new template called FixAmpersands. FixAmpersands is useful when you want to “join’ two lists in an AggregateDataSource in a Data View Web Part (DVWP) and the column you are uisng as the key may contain ampersands….
I’m positive I’ve run into this little issue before, but since I don’t seem to have done a post on it, I stymied myself again. A client of mine spotted a nice post from Ben Tedder (@bentedder) showing how to Create a Classifieds Listing using SharePoint 2010. It uses a bunch of Content Query Web…