Special Edition Using Microsoft® SharePoint Portal Server

Employee Locator Web Part (Version 2)

In the first version of the Employee Locator, the employee information was generated in two separate steps. First we retrieved data from SQL Server and saved it as an XML file, and then we used an XSL file (employee1.xsl) to transform it into an HTML file. This approach can be used in many different scenarios, as long as the frequency of changes to the data is not high. In such cases, the XML file can be generated through a scheduled task that generates the XML file on a daily or weekly basis, depending on the frequency of changes to data. Although this can be a valid and reasonable solution, it might not work well for cases when the data changes frequently. Probably a better approach for this scenario is ...