As follow-up to the "hook InfoPath to a database" demo, here I'm taking a step back to a simpler form - building an InfoPath form to be used on its own in conjunction with SharePoint. http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=344635 In the next...

Okay, I'm going to try a different approach on the "why do I care about InfoPath?" issue. I recorded a short screencast and posted it to Channel9: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=343092 In the screencast, I walk through setting up...

Simon said: "Then you find out its not part of the office suite." To be fair, this is somewhat true. At best, it's confusing. With Office 2003, InfoPath wasn't part of the suite you could buy retail or on open license. However, if you bought...

I recently wrote a book on InfoPath 2007 . What I find most amazing about the book is that it's evangelizing InfoPath. I've shown a number of developers the book, and when they read the description, their reaction is "wow, InfoPath sounds cool - I should...

It took me a while to figure out how to do the InfoPath/webservice thing starting with an InfoPath form. Maybe this is blindingly obvious to everyone but me, but here it is anyway: 1) Create an InfoPath form from a new, blank form: 2) Lay...

Argh. Classic Schroedinbug . I had an outer join between two tables to populate an InfoPath multi-select listbox . (So I needed a list of potential options with indications of which options had been selected). I created an outer join and put my parameter...

Enable an InfoPath form to post another form via email....

The challenge: use InfoPath to create an editor for the Structured Product Labeling (SPL) subset of the HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) schema. I've done quite a bit of document-centric work, and my philosophy has always been to design an...

Over the next few days I'll be posting a series of articles covering my trials and tribulations in creating an “HL7 Generator” - specifically using InfoPath to generate XML in the Structured Product Label format, which is a subset of the Clinical...

InfoPath SP1 ( public beta at the link; final due out this summer) includes a lot of cool changes, both in the UI and behind the scenes (most notably the ability to stuff managed code behind the form). First I'm going to cover the OnContextChange event...

... or “Why is my client so fat?” InfoPath is really cool. To some degree, it actually delivers on the ancient promise of “productivity without programmers.” Fundamentally, it's a form design and publication tool - end users...