Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Development Unleashed

Chapter 6Advanced List Management

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Accessing BDC Data in Lists
• Querying List Items with CAML
• Creating Parent/Child Relationships in a Single List

The list item is the core piece of data upon which all of SharePoint rests. You would be hard pressed to find any functionality in all of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) or Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) that doesn’t rely directly or indirectly on list items in some way. Chapter 5, “Managing SharePoint Lists,” provided an introduction to the list and list item and how to manipulate them programmatically.

This chapter provides information on some more advanced list management topics, such as accessing Business Data Catalog data within a list, querying and filtering list ...