Sharepoint Designer 2010 Review

In 2016, Microsoft officially announced that SharePoint Designer 2010 would be retired. Support ended, and the tool was removed from the Microsoft Download Center. If you try to install it on a modern Windows 10 or 11 machine, you are likely to face compatibility issues and error messages.

For anyone who needed to display data in a specific way, the Data View Web Part was a lifesaver. It allowed users to pull data from multiple sources (not just SharePoint lists, but SQL databases and XML files) and display it with custom styling using XSLT. It was the go-to solution for creating dashboards before modern BI tools took over. sharepoint designer 2010

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