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Publish faster to even more places with InfoPath 2007

Posted Friday, June 30, 2006 9:53 AM by infopath
When designing a form template, publish is an important step to make the form available for end users of the form. In InfoPath 2007, we have made some modifications and improvements to the publish process. This article is intended to highlight some of Read More...
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Introducing Horizontal Repeating Tables

Posted Wednesday, June 28, 2006 1:29 PM by infopath
InfoPath 2007 adds horizontal repeating table to the control toolbox for when you want data to be entered or displayed in a structured, tabular format, and when you want users to be able to add additional columns instead of rows. For example, you might Read More...
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Advanced server-side authentication for data connections, part 2

Posted Tuesday, June 27, 2006 8:45 AM by infopath
In the first part of this series I introduced the concepts involved in three tier authentication. Now let's drill into the details and work with some code. Using Office Single Sign-on with individual mapping An Office Single Sign-on (SSO) application Read More...
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Add C# or Visual Basic to your existing form using VSTO

Posted Wednesday, June 21, 2006 1:59 PM by infopath
Have you ever created an InfoPath form to later discover that you have to write code in order to accomplish something you need? If so, you have one of two options: You can use VSTA to add managed code to your form. It is included in the Office package, Read More...
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Open your rolodex from InfoPath using the Contact Selector

Posted Monday, June 19, 2006 6:25 PM by infopath
Speaking of Outlook integration , Microsoft Office 2007 includes a new control that enables you to choose one or more e-mail address from the address book. You can add this control to InfoPath’s list of custom controls by using the Add or Remove Custom Read More...
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Accessing InfoPath forms from Outlook

Posted Friday, June 16, 2006 5:08 PM by infopath
We have made significant investment in Office 2007 to better integrate InfoPath with Outlook. To that effect we have made it really ease to use InfoPath forms from within Outlook. When you email InfoPath forms from InfoPath 2007(using File/Send To Mail Read More...
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Advanced server-side authentication for data connections, part 1

Posted Wednesday, June 14, 2006 9:47 AM by infopath
To tier three... and beyond! Real-world enterprise applications are seldom restricted to a single server. Anyone who has created a nontrivial multi-tier application in a Windows environment has had to work around a fundamental limitation in NTLM authentication: Read More...
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Improvements to Share Point integration - Property demotion

Posted Tuesday, June 13, 2006 3:28 PM by infopath
One of the new features in InfoPath 2007 when publishing to a SharePoint 2007 server is the ability to turn on property demotion. Property demotion is the ability to be able to modify fields that show up in SharePoint document libraries and cause those Read More...
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Compatibility between InfoPath 2003, 2007, and Forms Server

Posted Thursday, June 08, 2006 9:10 AM by infopath
Ask and ye shall receive. Here's a short summary of how to think about compatibility when designing form templates in InfoPath 2007. 1. InfoPath 2003 forms will work as-is in 2007 Your existing forms should work. Period. If you find something that doesn't Read More...
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Getting the XPath without straining your brain

Posted Wednesday, June 07, 2006 2:39 PM by infopath
Yesterday I talked about using System.Xml in the new object model . My code examples included a key part of the InfoPath programming model: looking up fields in the data source using XPath so that you can set and get values. Unfortunately, figuring out Read More...
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"Design Once" and the new InfoPath 2007 Object Model

Posted Tuesday, June 06, 2006 9:06 AM by infopath
One of the main design principles for InfoPath 2007 and Forms Services 2007 is that you can create your form once, write code for it once, build and publish it once, and then have it work in both the browser and the client. We call this Design Once . Read More...
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