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Editing Complex Files in SharePoint Designer Quickly

ByMarc D Anderson November 3, 2010November 3, 2010

There are times when I’ve built up a page with complex Data View Web Parts (DVWPs) which take a *really* long time to load in SharePoint Designer 2007. The usual reason for this is that I’m using a Web Service as a DataSource which returns a large amount of data or that I’ve got many…

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Using a DataSource in a Data View Web Part (DVWP) in a Different Site in SharePoint Designer 2010

ByMarc D Anderson November 2, 2010May 7, 2012

For whatever reason, Microsoft in its infinite wisdom seems to have removed the ‘Connect to another library…’ link in the Data Source Library in SharePoint Designer 2010. Maybe that capability is hidden somewhere else now, but as my pal Chris Givens pointed out the other day in his Missing Features from SharePoint Designer 2010 post, it’s…