Download OS302 – The Business Data Catalog (Part 1)

SharePoint Designer:
Data Views and ASP.NET
Controls
Penny Coventry
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Session Agenda
What is SharePoint Designer?
Customise SharePoint Sites
Data View Web Part
ASP.NET Controls
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What is SharePoint Designer?
(SPD)
• Based on FrontPage
• Designed to help you:
– Customise SharePoint Sites
– Brand SharePoint Sites
– Build Workflows
– Create Content Management Templates
– Build SharePoint Applications Quickly,
Without Writing Server Code
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What Does that Mean?
• High quality WYSIWYG design view
• Powerful code view with IDE features
– IntelliSense for HTML/XHTML, JavaScript, VBScript, XSLT, and
ASP.NET
– Tag/function completion
– ASP.NET support with control hosting, property editing,
data binding
• Standards based sites
– XHTML, CSS, XML, XSLT
• CSS best practices
– DIV-based, table-free layouts
• Accessible Sites
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Data View Web Part (DVWP)
also known as the Data Form Web Part (DFWP)
or simply Data View
• One of the most powerful components in
Windows SharePoint Services
• The Swiss Army Knife of Web Parts
• Tool for Viewing and Managing data
• Different Data Sources
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SharePoint Lists and Libraries
Databases
Web Services
Server-side scripts
Business Data Catalog
• Data retrieved in the form of XML
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DVWP - DFWP
• Uses standard XSLT for final display
• WYSIWYG XSLT designer
• XSLT IntelliSense in code view
• Synced code/design view when editing XSLT
• More features:
– Web part connections
– Conditional formatting
– In-line editing (with custom forms) of:
• SharePoint List data, SQL Server data, Static XML-based data,
Data posted to Web Services
– Can get parameters from QueryString, ServerVariables,
ASP.NET controls, or Web Part Connections
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DVWP Demo
DVWP – Viewing Data
DFWP – Modifying
Data
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ASP.NET Controls
– Similar to those exposed by Visual Studio
– Made available using the Toolbox Task Pane
– Divided into 6 groups
• Standard
• Data Validation
• Navigation
• Login
• Web Parts
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Demo
Using ASP.NET
Controls
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Q&A
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