Building the SharePoint User Experience

C H A P T E R  6

What Lurks in the Forest of Lists?Ripping the Guts Out of SharePoint Dragons, Lists, List Templates, and List Forms

This chapter will lead you toward some of the scariest things that exist for SharePoint developers. In order to survive, you will have to gather up whatever courage you can find and prepare yourself to face demons, monsters, and foul CAML language.

We will begin by examining what lists really are, how they work, and why they make up the foundation of SharePoint. That's nothing too scary, so there is no need to fear anything at this point.

Then we'll move on and start examining the list CAML that you need to master ...