A lot of my posts involve using the Data View Web Part and I forget that SharePoint designers are yet to discover this powerful web part. I get lots of requests to explain this in more details which is hard to do with just screen shots so here is a screen cast….

http://www.wssdemo.com/Pages/flash/SimpleDVWP.htm

It s a bit rough but I ran out of time to tweak all the options. I will tidy it up and add some more annotations soon.

Shows how to render an RSS feed using SharePoint Designer, Data Source catalogue and Data View and format things like the date.