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Hello again, For those of you who went to my webcast this morning, thanks for coming. There was a request for the project I was working on during the demo. I don't have it lying around but I created one that is pretty much identical and it can be found
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For those of you who follow the InfoPath blog, this won't be new information. (It was posted here: http://blogs.msdn.com/infopath/archive/2004/11/17/258868.aspx ) I have a webcast on the 29th on create custom controls using InfoPath via ActiveX. I won't
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On MSDN, InfoPath has hands-on labs. The ActiveX control lab was one that I was responsible for. Since it has been posted, there have been a few requests for the Visual Baisc 6.0 equivalent (instead of C++) because that seems to be the prefered way of
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Microsoft Office 2003 SP1 is now available! Link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=9C51D3A6-7CB1-4F61-837E-5F938254FC47&displaylang=en There are two files, here's a description of the differences: Office2003SP1-kb842532-client-enu.exe
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Ok, I said there were three types of custom control binding: simple binding, stream binding and node binding.... ok, so I kind of lied.... there's a fourth type... sort of... If you don't pick a Value property, then it won't give you a choice of binding.
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InfoPath custom controls can use a subset of ActiveX controls. This subset must implement IObjectSafety for it to work in InfoPath (you won't even be able to add it if you don't have this). For those writing Visual Basic 6.0 controls, take a look at this
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Continuing (from Part II ) on, we will discuss the third type of binding available to ActiveX controls within InfoPath. This one is called “Node Binding” (which corresponds to the “Field or Group (any data type)“ in the drop down
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Continuing (from Part I ) on, we will discuss the second type of binding available to ActiveX controls within InfoPath. This one is called “Stream Binding” (which corresponds to the “Field element with custom data type“ in the
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Over the last year and a half, the InfoPath team has been working on the SP1 release. If anyone's seen the list of features, you'll notice that there are new features with a service pack release. The feature which I've worked on mostly was the custom
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For those looking for InfoPath resources beyond stuff directly from Microsoft, InfoPathdev.com has some good examples which you can find here: http://www.infopathdev.com/examples/
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Recently, this book was released. It's one of the first ones to cover the additional features for InfoPath Service Pack 1. There are a lot of new features in SP1 (see list of features ). I haven't actually read the book yet but I've heard good things
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For those who need help with InfoPath related questions, a good place to always go to is the public newsgroups. The newsgroup you'll be looking for is microsoft.public.infopath. Here's a link for those who don't have a newsgroup reader set up: http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.infopath
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Distribute an InfoPath Form Template to Offline Users seems to be a pretty big scenario for a lot of people. I guess it seems a little foreign to me because I'm always connected :). Anyways, for those looking for a solution on how to get this to work.
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InfoPath has a really powerful feature to allow users to create their own custom controls for InfoPath forms. One requirement that is fairly essential for controls to work in InfoPath is that the controls must fire OnPropertyChange Notifications so that
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