One of the main things that many of us ‘SharePoint people’ are responsible for is to display and manipulate data on SharePoint pages, right? All sorts of data – not just data from within SharePoint such as List and Library data, but data from databases, through web services, xml files and all other sorts of places. So how are you currently providing access to data to your end users? or I guess the better question to ask is ‘Are you the one doing this?’. Usually the answer is: ‘Our developers are taking care of it. It is not something that …

If you have worked with the XSLT Data View web part before, you know how much power it has. You can point to virtually any repository of data (web services, databases, xml files, SharePoint lists and libraries etc) and bring it into SharePoint. The data gets retrieved as standard XML and you can modify it to look however you like using SharePoint Designer 2007 without having to do any coding whatsoever! Here is a snapshot of a Data View web part showing information from a database table. When connecting to the database, there are a couple of options for authentication. …

We’re back again with another free webinar. The content of this webinar was presented as a session by me at the Microsoft Connections 2010 conference in Amsterdam last week. The concepts presented in this session are already available as videos to the subscribers of SharePoint-Videos.com. I’ll be presenting this session in a webinar format to be held this Thursday, Jan 28th. For this webinar, fundamental knowledge of SharePoint (2007 or 2010) concepts is assumed. Webinar will be held on Jan 28th at 12:00pm Eastern time. You can get more information and register for this webinar here: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/884796449