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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 development cookbook

By : Ed Musters
Book Image

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 development cookbook

By: Ed Musters

Overview of this book

<p>There is a heavy demand in the marketplace for SharePoint developers that you could take advantage of - if only you had the opportunity to acquire the relevant skills! But, SharePoint 2010 is a big old product with a steep learning curve &ndash; where do you begin? <br /><br />This book has been designed to take the experienced ASP.NET developer from &ldquo;beginner&rdquo; to &ldquo;professional&rdquo; SharePoint developer in the shortest amount of time. You will be productive on you very first SharePoint development assignment with the knowledge and skills that you learn here. You will have distilled the essence of the author&rsquo;s many years of training, and leading development teams in SharePoint. <br /><br />This book uncovers the most common &ldquo;pattern&rdquo; of typical SharePoint development tasks encountered in the real world and puts the topics in a logical order with detailed step-by-step recipes for you to follow. <br />The practical example given builds and flows throughout the chapters and topics. By the end of this book, you will be able to apply the concepts to the challenges ahead of you!</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Working with the XSLT List View Web Part


If you navigate currently to the Proposals library, you will see a rather uninteresting view—providing exactly none of the information we have available for the Proposals library:

The first thing we will take care of is to modify the default view to include information such as the client, proposal amount, and proposal type. Next, we'll demonstrate how powerful a view can be—with the ability to create grouping, roll ups, sums, and so on.

There is a special out-of-the-box Web Part called the XSLT List View Web Part. As this Web Part implies, it can be configured to display a view of a SharePoint List or Library. In fact, the Shared Documents you see by default on a Team Site home page is an XSLT List View Web Part, configured to show the default view for a document library. These are exactly the same four columns shown by default for our Proposal LibraryType, Name, Modified, and Modified By.

What is XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations...