SharePoint Designer Error When Saving a Page with Multiple Data View Web Parts

I could probably write an entire book on the strange things that SharePoint Designer does, but I don’t have time for that. Instead, it’s yet another blog post. Today I was adding some Data View Web Parts (DWVPs) to a page, and I took the shortcut of copying and pasting the code of one to…

Fix in the February 2012 CU for Stack Overflows with DVWPs Running Over One Second Limit Imposed by the August 2011 CU

Image via Wikipedia If you’ve been bitten by the issue I described in my post called August Cumulative Update Causing Stack Overflows with DVWPs Running Over One Second, then you’ll be happy to know that there may be a solution available to you. An anonymous reader left a comment on the above post the today…

Application-Wide Help in SharePoint Using DVWPs and List-Based Content

In a recent client project, we wanted to offer some sort of online help capability. While SharePoint has a help capability built into it (those little icons on every page which usually take you to a page that has nothing to do with what you are actually doing – Microsoft should really fix that), we…

August Cumulative Update Causing Stack Overflows with DVWPs Running Over One Second

Today is one of those days where I try to figure out a bunch of odd situations in various places. The oddest was one involving a Data View Web Part (DVWP) I wrote about a year ago. It’s been running just fine ever since – until about a month or so ago. I didn’t hear…