The other day I got a question about what I mean when I say that working with the Data View Web Part (DVWP) and jQuery can allow you to rapidly prototype solutions. In my experience, both the DVWP and jQuery allow you to rapidly iterate on a potential solution for a business use outside the normal…
Here’s proof that you should never stop learning (or at least trying to learn). I ran across a post on the MSDN SharePoint – Design and Customization forum just now that showed me a trick I’d never run into before. I don’t know that I’ve ever had the need to show file attachments for items in…
This is one of those “How could I have been so stupid?” things. I like to tell all of you about these in the hopes that if you read the post, it’ll lodge somewhere in the back of your mind and the next time you find yourself cursing and unable to figure some silly thing…
Starting today, my series of articles on Unlocking the Mysteries of the SharePoint Data View Web Part XSL Tags from my blog and EndUsersharePoint.com is available for download as an eBook from the Sympraxis Consulting Web site. I’ve had many requests to “bind this content up” into a book or eBook, so I did just that….
Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… Whoa, Bessie! I forgot about one of the most useful XSL tags for Data View Web Parts (DVWPs)! <xsl:import> allows you to be highly modular in storing your XSL templates for reuse. I mentioned this back in Part 13 briefly, but I should go into it in some more detail. This post…