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WssDal - a Sharepoint Web Services alternative

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About 2 months ago I asked if anyone was interested in an alternative to the WSS webservices. A few people responded and tried my WssDal library. The general consensus seems to be that while it isn't perfect, it is useful enough to continue developing. So if anyone else wants to give it a test drive, the library (complete with full source code, some light samples, setup instructions and documentation) is available HERE.

Bug reports, feature requests, etc are most welcome. If there is any interest in collaboration I'll happily open a workspace on GDN or SourceForge for this.

As with any code downloaded from my blog: you use this at your own risk. See the full disclaimer on my blog homepage if you don't know what I mean by that.

3/7/2005 Update: In the first 5 days WssDal was downloaded over 200 times. So how about some feedback? I want to make it better, but I need your input!

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  • Anonymous
    March 02, 2005
    Hi addy, just skimmed through your documentation on WssDal, looks really useful. I will give it a try and come back on it! Thanks for the work!
  • Anonymous
    March 02, 2005
    Thanks :)
  • Anonymous
    March 03, 2005
    Hi Addy, I came through WSSDal, it's really wonderful, i just downloaded it and have great hopes, Thank you Addy
  • Anonymous
    March 04, 2005
    Hi Addy, getting something to work in just a few minutes usualy doesn't happen to me. Well, now it did, thx very much, looks great already. My documents in the document sample library showed as empty lines, i didn't get a closer look at it yet. Thx !
  • Anonymous
    March 04, 2005
    Works fine now, my WSS is in a different language (dutch), had to translate some fieldnames.
  • Anonymous
    March 08, 2005
    Patrick Tisseghem's Blog
  • Anonymous
    March 08, 2005
    andrew connell
  • Anonymous
    April 07, 2005
    Addy,

    This looks like the beginnings of something really cool - and I already have project in mind to utilize it's capabilities.

    Just going through the source and help, I have a couple of suggestions:

    1) Can you add descriptions to the help file for each of the parameters of the function calls to help us better understand what is going on?

    2) Also, and a minor issue, but I noticed that the help file and library are not in sync. Some of the parameters are missing from the help file.

    3) Could you add CheckOut functionality to DownloadDocument, to mirror the same functionality in UploadDocument?

    Thanks, Mitch
  • Anonymous
    April 11, 2005
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    June 11, 2009
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