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July 2006 - Posts

Andrew May knows XML Forms on SharePoint
This is a shout out to Andrew May, who's posted some great content on SharePoint as it relates to InfoPath and XML more generally. His most recent post covers the new Form content type that InfoPath uses for its Content Types integration. H e's also got Read More...
New Article about the New Developer Features
Hi all, I wanted to let you know about a new MSDN article that has just recently been published which outlines the new developer features of InfoPath 2007. Feel free to post any questions or comments you have about the article. Thanks, Scott Read More...
Multi-Select List Box: Requiring at least one entry
Yesterday I introduced the Multi-Select List Box and talked about how its data source is somewhat special: it binds to a repeating list of fields instead of a single field like the normal List Box does. When you need to ensure that at least one item is Read More...
Introducing the Multi-Select List Box
InfoPath 2007 introduces a new control, the multi-select list box, for cases when you want to allow users to select one or more items from the list of options. This list of options may be static, or may come from a data source. For example, you may use Read More...
Don't settle for just one: Adding multiple default rows
Since I realize not everyone has installed the Beta yet (you can do it!), I figure it's time for a trick everyone can play with, even those still using InfoPath 2003. Starting with more than one row in a repeating table You may want to do this if you Read More...
Got suggestions?
One of the reasons we started this team blog was to get your comments (spurred by our tips and tricks), so it's exciting to see more folks chime in. Let me just take a moment to fan the flames… We're listening We're always open to feature requests to Read More...
More than one way to write code: Visual Studio and InfoPath
If you need to write some Visual Basic or C# code behind your form, or maybe just some script, there are a few different tools you can use depending on which versions of InfoPath and Visual Studio you have. Here's a quick table summarizing it all: InfoPath Read More...
Advanced server-side authentication for data connections, part 3
This is the final segment of my three part series. In the first part of this series I introduced the concepts involved in three tier authentication. Then I covered single sign-on with some code. Now we'll go one step further… Authorization using the Web Read More...
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