A few weeks ago I promised to post a few articles about extending CAML to deal with some of the elements that you’d normally have to write code in order to package. To be honest I’ve been putting it off in the hope that SharePoint 2010 and VisualStudio 2010 would make all these problems go away but it seems that that isn’t going to happen, at least not completely. So no more excuses, I may as well get on with it! I wanted to cover Lookup fields in this post. Somebody recently asked about this on the forums and...

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...

Have you ever thought “it would be really cool if I could create a field control for my publishing page that would interact with all the other field controls"? I’ll bet you have, I know you don’t want to admit it because the idea is madness but I’ll bet you have! (No? I guess I’m out on my own with that one then?) I’ve only really gotten into the latest version of Silverlight in the past few weeks and I have to say I’m impressed. The potential for integration with SharePoint is huge and that’s before we consider the...