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Saturday, October 29, 2005 #

SharePoint Data View Web Part Extension Functions in the ddwrt Namespace

The Data View Web Part is often under utilized but has vast capabilities in SharePoint, it can be used to perform the following:

Define a query and data source from which to retrieve the XML data. Data sources can be SharePoint lists or external databases such as Microsoft SQL Server.

Define the XSLT transformation that converts XML retrieved from the data source into HTML. FrontPage offers a WYSIWYG experience for editing these XSLT views, including live data preview.

More details at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odc_SP2003_ta/html/OfficeSharePointDDWRT.asp

posted @ Saturday, October 29, 2005 6:51 PM | Feedback (0)

What is Microsoft After Dark, the launch show webcast?

In this webcast the Vice Presidents of the soon to launch products: Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006 talks about and answers questions from customers and partners whilst they play blackjack against each other to win a free trip to the San Francisco launch for a partner that they have selected.

Examples of questions discussed in this webcast:

Why are the 3 products being launch together?
What is the difference between Windows Workflow Foundation and Biztalk?