I like to follow what’s going on on the SharePoint forums and one of the things I’ve noticed is that practically every day somebody starts a thread about RenderPatterns. Either they’ve created a custom field and they want to know how to use RenderPatterns or they’ve read through the documentation, have created a RenderPattern and it doesn’t do what they expect. I thought I’d spend a bit of time documenting my findings with regard to rendering of custom fields and in particular the elusive RenderPattern. The Documentation We’ll start with the MSDN documentation since anybody looking to build...