I find myself retyping these two of my DVWP best practices over and over again in some form or another in the MSDN SharePoint – Design and Customization forum, so I thought I’d capture them here for posterity. SharePoint Designer Generates Errors It’s not unusual when you are making quite a few changes to a…
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…
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…
As long as I’ve been working with Data View Web Parts (DVWPs), I’ve pretty much always done my “joins” manually by diving into the XSL. When I started working with DVWPs, there wasn’t much available to tell me how to do things, so I just made it up based on what worked. Today I saw…
I posted last September about Date Calculations in a DVWP. In that post, I pointed out Andy Lewis’ great post about how to do Filtering and Formatting with Date Values over at the Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog. I’ve been answering quite a few questions about date arithmetic over at the MSDN forums lately, so…