How SharePoint Forms Work

How SharePoint Forms Work: "How SharePoint Forms Work
SharePoint 2010
Other Versions

* Windows SharePoint Services 3

Published: May 2010

Each list type generally has a set of display, edit, and new form ASPX pages (DispForm.aspx, EditForm.aspx, and NewForm.aspx) that are provisioned when lists are provisioned. These ASPX pages are provisioned into the “content space.” In other words, they are not located in %ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS, and they do not operate through the /_layouts virtual directory. For document libraries, these pages are instead provisioned within a hidden subfolder of the list called forms. For other SharePoint lists, the pages are provisioned under the list root folder. Each of these ASPX pages contains a Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.ListFormWebPart object that serves to render the form.

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 uses Microsoft ASP.NET to display forms. Each form logically consists of a set of controls (for example, a control for the toolbar). A special control called an iterator (Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.ListFieldIterator) is used to iterate the collection of list fields and add each field to the form.

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