SharePoint Fest Denver 2011 Demo Materials

Last week (May 19-20) I spoke at SharePoint Fest Denver 2011 and also got to attend quite a few other sessions, which were, of course, educational and enjoyable. I have posted two solutions files (WSPs) for SharePoint 2010 to my Sympraxis Consulting Demos site which contain the two main demos I showed in my Developing in SharePoint’s Middle…

Obscure (And Not So Obscure) Bugs with Complex Dropdowns in SharePoint Forms

As I’ve written in the past, there are several types of “dropdowns” in SharePoint forms. Briefly, there are: “Simple” dropdowns – These are plain, old HTML selects; the type of dropdown you are most familiar with on the Web. SharePoint renders one of these when there are fewer than 20 options. “Complex” dropdowns – SharePoint…

Putting Together a Survey About SPServices

In recent discussions with SharePoint luminaries like Christophe Humbert (@Path2SharePoint) and others, it’s seemed like doing a survey about SPServices would be useful for everyone. I’m building it in Survey Monkey, and I wanted to ask you, the entire world, for suggestions about questions. I want the survey to be useful for everyone who uses…

SPXSLT (SharePoint XSL Templates) Release 0.0.6

I just released a new version of the SPXSLT Codeplex Project with a few minor changes. I’ve added a new template called GetUserNames. It’s very similar to GetUserIDs, except that it parses out the user names (rather than IDs) from a Person or Group column value. It requires the GetUserName template to function. Both GetUserNames…