SharePoint Apps: Alexander Malek's weblog

using data views and workflow to build apps in sharePoint designer

Download VSeWSS. Greetings from TechEd Barcelona! Today, we finally got to announce a project I've...

Date: 11/07/2006

Thanks again to everyone who showed up for the SharePoint Designer talks at TechEd! As promised,...

Date: 07/05/2006

Here’s a quick little tidbit that will help when building SharePoint applications. By default, when...

Date: 06/17/2006

Just about to take off for Seattle – finally catching up on a week’s worth of email backlog :)....

Date: 06/16/2006

I’m excited to be going to TechEd this week. I'll be presenting two sessions on SharePoint Designer...

Date: 06/11/2006

There is so much stuff in SharePoint Designer 2007, it's hard to pick favorites, but if I had to...

Date: 06/01/2006

Now that beta2 of Office is out (grab it here for free!), I think it's a great time for me to switch...

Date: 05/25/2006

One of my long pet peeves about Outlook is that if you search for a user in the “Global Address...

Date: 05/16/2006

In my previous post, I talked about how Web Part Connections can be used to pass data between Web...

Date: 04/25/2006

One of the great new features part of SharePoint v2 is this thing called "Web Part Connections",...

Date: 04/10/2006

When you first insert a Data View, the default "look" is always a tabular multi-item view; however,...

Date: 03/30/2006

Now that beta2 of Office is out (grab it here for free!), I think it's a great time for me to switch...

Date: 03/25/2006

The inner workings of Conditional Formatting are actually pretty straightforward. The key construct...

Date: 02/23/2006

Sometimes true Wysiwyg is not what you want in design view. For example, if you are using...

Date: 02/10/2006

In addition to being able to show and hide content using Condition Formatting, you can also use the...

Date: 01/20/2006

One of the things XSLT makes really easy is "conditional formatting", i.e. having parts of your view...

Date: 12/27/2005

We built the Data View on XSLT for a couple of important reasons: 1) We wanted there to be a "real"...

Date: 12/04/2005

In my last post, I talked a little about XSLT - how it can be used to mix data from an XML file with...

Date: 11/15/2005

Beyond look and feel, there is lots of other formatting support in the Data View. One of the most...

Date: 10/07/2005

I'm very happy to say that formatting a Data View works exactly the way you'd expect/want - you...

Date: 10/06/2005

As I mentioned previously, my main area of focus on FrontPage is features that help users build...

Date: 09/29/2005

In my last post, I mentioned the neato ‘Datasheet’ view that comes with SharePoint. I'm sure this is...

Date: 09/27/2005

If you’re like me, you spend a lot of time in ‘code view’ getting your page to look just right. In...

Date: 09/25/2005

Today was our annual company meeting and all in all I had a great time. That despite my natural...

Date: 09/24/2005

During my time here on FrontPage (coming on 3.5 years!), I've spent most of my waking hours on...

Date: 09/22/2005