SharePoint Controls
SharePoint user controls
WSS 3.0 comes with a number of user controls that you can use in your web parts and application pages. These controls are located in the 12\TEMPLATE\CONTROLTEMPLATES folder.
SharePoint server controls
The Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls namespace of the Microsoft.SharePoint.dll contains a number of SharePoint server controls that you can use in you web parts and application pages.
- DateTimeControl control
- InputFormTextBox control
- InputFormCheckBox, InputFormCheckBoxList and InputFormCheckBoxListValidator controls
- InputFormRadioButton control
- SharePoint validation controls
- PeopleEditor control
- ListFieldIterator control
- ListViewByQuery control
- WebApplicationSelector control
- SPGridView control (written by Paul Robinson)
- SPDataSource control (written by Chris O’Brien)
Other controls that are useful on application pages for the Central administration can be found in the Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationPages.Administration.dll located in the 12\CONFIG\ADMINBIN directory:
- AdministrationDataSourceControl control
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About
I’m Karine Bosch and currently I’m working as a freelance O365 and SharePoint Solution Architect .
I still do a lot of work for my previous employer Recomatics, a company located in Destelbergen near Ghent.
Previously I also worked as a Premier Field Engineer for SharePoint @ Microsoft Belgium.
For 5 successive years I’ve been rewarded as SharePoint Server MVP for my contribution to the SharePoint community: I developed the U2U CAML Query Builder and its successor the CAML Designer, which I develop together with Andy Van Steenbergen.
In the many years I worked for U2U, I worked as technical assistant for Patrick Tisseghem who unfortunately died on 3th September 2008. Together with Patrick we developed the alfa and beta versions of the Silverlight BluePrint for SharePoint which contains several samples on how to integrate Silverlight with SharePoint. You can download the samples from http://www.codeplex.com/SL4SP.
I’m also proud board member of the belgian user group BIWUG.
If you don’t find the answers to your questions on this blog, you can always post your questions to the SharePoint 2010 forum or the SharePoint 2013 forum.
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Hey Karine, your last two links appear to be broken. Thanks for a great list!
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Hey Karine, could you please tell me if lost focus kinds of events of SharePoint Webcontrols be avialable?
I want to execute something when user leaves SharePoint Textfield Control.
Thanks & Regards
Khushi
How do I get the required field * to appear? Im using a validator control for the textfield but that doesn’t appear to have any impact.
It should appear automatically when you haven’t filled out a required field.
Karine
Got any examples of localization of web parts using external resource files under wss 3.0?
John,
I’m very sorry but I don’t have examples on localization of web parts.
Karine
Is there a “beginners” blog you can recommend?
Hi,
I am having the XAP application with Resource files. I would like to deploy these two files in SP foundation 2010. When the user changed the site language from sharepoint site, my web parts control value need to change based on user selection. Please let me know how to implement this.
Hi balaji,
Do you mean you have a localized Silverlight application? Or do you have 2 XAP files (one for each language), compiled as resource files in your web part?
Karine
Hey thanks for the overview…
Hi Karine,
This information is really helpful. Thanks for all the postings.
I do have a question regarding display information from mulitple lists in one view (merging records from lists into one record).
Lets say we have three SharePoint lists that have relationships how would you go about building this in one view using a custom application page?
Hi Amir, my first (but very important) question is: are you working with SharePoint 2007 or SharePoint 2010? Once I know that, I’ll try to formulate an answer.
Thanks for these detailed articles!
hi Karine,
Can you help me.How to convert “” to edit mode where user can able to add what ever value he can able to enter.Currently in my publishing filed when i add “Document Created By” column this filed is appeared in my layout.Actuall needed is to display my content author name over there.But it is displaying like “domain\username” which is not the expected one.
hi Karine,
to convert sharepoint webcontrol.
Hi Vamshi,
I hope I understand you comment well. You are not able to edit the “Document Created By” field as this is managed by SharePoint itself. You will need to add a custom site column/field that you can manage yourself using the SharePoint controls. You are able to change values in SharePoint controls when your form is in Edit mode.
I dont want to add site column now.since i was done using max.So for this i was done by using control “Sharepoint:formField” with Fieldname=”Author” the thing is Author name is getting displayed as anchor link with redirecting URL.I want to disable that.how to acheive this.
Goood.But i feel some are missing..
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Is there any label in sharepoint
Hi Shiva,
You can use the SharePoint:EncodedLiteral control for this purpose. You can find a sample here: https://karinebosch.wordpress.com/sharepoint-controls/inputformsectionascx-control/
Kind regards,
Karine Bosch
Thanks for the great post, Karine
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SharePoint 2013. I have a number of SharePoint groups established for my site collection. I have added controls to an InfoPath form that will allow the user to select a person from a group that I have assigned to the Content Type or column. I do not have any constraint rules on the selection control on the form. Users that are using this form are getting a message that they do not have permissions to use the control. Do you have any clues as to where or what these permissions may be so that I may correct this so that all user that can update using the form will also have access to these controls.
Hi Robert,
I would post this question to the fora dedicated to InfoPath.
Kind regards,
Karine Bosch