I wanted to post a reminder that SharePoint Saturday Boston is coming up next Saturday, March 14, at the Microsoft offices in Waltham, MA. I’ll be doing a session entitled Developing with SharePoint Designer: The Middle Tier, Focus on Data View Web Parts (DVWPs) and talking about a lot of the techniques that you’ve seen…
When you are building a DVWP in SharePoint, there are some project (Web site) and list properties that are available to you directly from CAML that aren’t well-documented, which you can use if you request them directly. For instance, if you add the following to your CAML <ListProperty Name=”Title” /><ProjectProperty Name=”Title” />, the titles of…
I think I’ve found a bug in using aggregate data sources in DVWPs with SQL Stored Procedures. I’m trying to use the results of a Stored Procedure combined with the content of a list in SharePoint. I’ve isolated the issue to the Stored Procedure. The first asp:SqlDataSource statement below is what I want the data…
Sometimes when you create and configure a Data View Web Part (DVWP), you’ll see the PermMask column show up on its own in the DataFields or the CAML in your DataSource. This happens most often when you are building a Crosslist query (DataSourceMode=”CrossList”). The PermMask column contains the permissions mask for the item for the…
Another name drop and tip ‘o the hat to Mauro Cardarelli for bringing this one to my attention. SharePoint Saturday is coming to Boston. I’m going to see if I can’t get in as a speaker to talk about my SharePoint Designer DVWP stuff. Working title: Developing with SharePoint Designer: The Middle Tier, Focus on Data…