The View schema of Collaborative Application Markup Language (CAML) is used to define how the contents of a list view are rendered in Microsoft SharePoint Foundation.

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SharePoint Foundation 2010 uses XSLT to define list views, and the View schema is maintained for backward compatibility. For information about XSLT list views, see List Views.

A list view includes a query that returns the data that is displayed in the view. For the list of query elements, see Query Schema. For the top-level elements that are used to organize a view, see List Schema.

In SharePoint Foundation 2010 .aspx pages, the view is conveyed through a Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages..::.XsltListViewWebPart object. Views can be created or modified programmatically through either the server-side or client-side object model (for example, members of SPView or SPViewCollection and their related types in the Microsoft.SharePoint.Client (JavaScript: SP) namespace), through the Views web service (methods of the Views class), or through remote procedure call (RPC) protocol (see SharePoint Foundation Methods).