Reverse Alchemy

For an internal project we were creating a number of custom List Definitions by editing the schema.xml files. When we opened an instance of the List Definition in SharePoint, the fields we had added did not show up in the View, New and Edit forms. Only the Title field was visible.
As it turned out, the [...]

Recently I’ve been working a lot with the SharePoint standard templates. A client wanted us to build a Web Part that had the look and feel of a standard SharePoint Web Part and the easiest way to achieve that was using templates. Using these, we didn’t have to worry about custom fields, save buttons, validation [...]

In his excellent post on How SharePoint 2007 Renders Its Content Geoff McElhanon shows how to programmatically load SharePoint-based templates. The code he shows us is as follows:

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// Initialize template container with our custom template
templateContainer = new TemplateContainer();
templateContainer.Template =
SPControlTemplateManager.GetTemplateByName(RenderingTemplateId);
 
// Add the container to the webpart control hierarchy
Controls.Add(templateContainer);

However, I ran into [...]

Last Thursday I passed the 70-541 MCTS: Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Application Development exam. So now I officially should know something about SharePoint development.