Project and List Properties Available from CAML

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…

Today’s ‘Optimize Your SharePoint Investment’ from Vitale, Caturano

I want to thank my ex-colleagues at Vitale, Caturano for a great event today in Waltham at Microsoft’s offices.  There were some good presentations about the use of Sharepoint in the enterprise, about some of the vendor offerings in the space, and specific stories about how SharePoint use has evolved by Andy Kawa from Goodwin Procter LLP and by…

Error When Trying to Delete a Master Page: “Server error: This item cannot be deleted because it is still referenced by other pages.”

I’ve had this happen often and I’ve usually just left the unused master pages, since they aren’t really hurting anything.  Today I finally decided to try to see if I could get rid of a pile of old copies of master pages I had lying around, and I found this Microsoft article which explains a workaround. …

Possible Bug in Aggregate Data Sources in DVWPs?

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…