Here’s a great little trick from an MSDN Forum thread I was trying to help out in. Thanks to Playerkiller for this one. Suppose you’d like just a single DVWP to display numbers (either currency or regular numbers) in a different locale than the host site. This trick lets you do just that. Prerequisites: Numbers…
After the back and forth with Mike Oryszak about the last demo I built, my partner Pete and I decided that it would be really useful (and a fun exercise) to start building out a jQuery Library for the SharePoint Web Services. While many, many people have blogged about their point solutions for this (not…
Last week, I spotted a really nice blog post from Mike Oryszak which showed how to update an item without a form by using jQuery to post changes using the SharePoint Lists Web Service. It got me thinking about a lot of things that you might do to make SharePoint feel more “Web 2.0”. By…
Anyone who follows my blog or knows me professionally knows that I love working with the Data View Web Part (DVWP) in SharePoint. It’s the Swiss Army knife of Web Parts, it’s a dessert topping, it’s a floor wax. Yes, it even can help you graph your data. I’ve posted before about this technique for…
I added a new demo page to the Sympraxis Consulting site yesterday. It’s such a simple thing that it’s almost not worth mentioning. However, when you can do something today that means you don’t have to do work tomorrow, why not make the effort? I’ve posted on this idea before, but just to reiterate, the demo…