Chapter 10. Creating Data Sources and Data Views

Chapter 6, described how you can design your own Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS 3.0) lists and libraries, how you can create multiple views of any list or library, and how you can choose to display different views—all using only a Web browser. The capabilities offered here are robust, but like most any technique, they do have their limitations when it comes to certain customizations.

One way of gaining more flexibility is, of course, to write your own Web Parts in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 or Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. Part VII, will explain the basics of writing and deploying such Web Parts, but the individual ...

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