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Using the Contact Selector Control

Posted Wednesday, February 28, 2007 7:33 AM by infopath
We have seen a number of requests on how to allow a user to enter (or select) a person’s name or logon alias and then validate that user against their Active Directory without using code. This has been especially true in workflow scenarios where User Read More...
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Passing Data into a Form: Input Parameters

Posted Monday, February 26, 2007 5:43 AM by infopath
This blog article discusses a new feature of Microsoft InfoPath 2007 that makes it possible to pass data into an InfoPath form at load time. A typical example would be retrieving records from a database for a particular user. At load time a ‘userID’ can Read More...
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New Resources on Office Online

Posted Friday, February 23, 2007 8:38 AM by infopath
Our colleagues at Office Online released several interesting InfoPath topics: Form Data Aggregation and Merging: - Design a form for merging - Merge actions for fields and groups - Merge InfoPath e-mail form data in Outlook Document Information Panel: Read More...
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Calculating Elapsed Time…without code!

Posted Wednesday, February 21, 2007 6:45 AM by infopath
UPDATE: Due to the number of requests for adding more columns to this sample, I have re-designed the sample. If I have time in the future I will update the steps to create this new design; however, for now you can download the updated design here to see Read More...
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Attachment(s): ElapsedTime_NoCode_NewDesign.xsn

Calculating new, default date and time values

Posted Monday, February 19, 2007 5:43 AM by infopath
Similar to performing elapsed time calculations, creating a new date or time value based on a previous value used to require code – not anymore! With InfoPath 2007 you can use the new “ addDays() ” and “ addSeconds() ” functions to calculate a new date Read More...
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InfoPath Team is Hiring Program Managers

Posted Friday, February 16, 2007 7:17 PM by infopath
If you’re reading this blog, you’re probably passionate about InfoPath. You built several InfoPath applications, and think the technology has lots of potential. But you also realize that InfoPath is still a fairly new product, so there’s a lot to be done Read More...
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All you wanted to know about browser compatibility

Posted Friday, February 16, 2007 11:03 AM by infopath
These articles will help you answer many of the questions you might have about Forms Services browser compatibility, rich-client only features, and the Design Checker. Title Details Audience Plan browser support (OSS) Describes the different levels of Read More...
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Forms Services and multiple IIS Web Applications

Posted Wednesday, February 14, 2007 6:30 AM by infopath
We often get questions asking if the XmlFormView control can be used in a particular environment. Usually you will use it on a regular page that belongs to a WSS Site or on a page in _layouts folder of a WSS site. These scenarios are supported and covered Read More...
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UDC File Authoring Tool

Posted Monday, February 12, 2007 6:15 AM by infopath
Some time ago, we blogged about the reasons why you'd use UDC files and the anatomy of UDC files . You may be wondering, however, if it's possible to author these files in InfoPath - after all, UDC files are just XML files. You're right - this is definitely Read More...
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Attachment(s): UDC File Creator.xsn

InfoPath-Related Blogs: OPML Compilation

Posted Friday, February 09, 2007 6:26 AM by infopath
We promised , and here it is: the OPML compilation of RSS feeds of bloggers that write about InfoPath. Just download the file and import it into your favorite news aggregator. Sneak peek: Cheers! Alex Read More...
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Attachment(s): InfoPathBlogs.opml

Using the Events Manager of the InfoPath Hosted Control

Posted Wednesday, February 07, 2007 9:36 AM by infopath
The InfoPath hosted control gives developers of third party hosted applications the ability to respond to events in the form. The InfoPath event manager provides this functionality. Through the event manager a host application can respond to 5 form events, Read More...
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Rate Our Content!

Posted Tuesday, February 06, 2007 3:22 PM by infopath
Is this blog useful for you? Which articles are most useful? One very important way you can tell us is by rating the content that we publish: just use the little "star" control next to the title, in the detail view for each article - This will help us Read More...
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InfoPath and Yukon: The Details

Posted Monday, February 05, 2007 6:09 AM by infopath
In a recent post , I touched upon the reasons why you might want to go with SQL Server XML columns as the storage for your InfoPath forms. In this article, we'll talk about actually making it work. InfoPath's strength is working with XML data sources: Read More...
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New MSDN resources

Posted Friday, February 02, 2007 7:35 AM by infopath
Some new MSDN resources to check out: 1) Microsoft Office Forms Server 2007 SDK 2) InfoPath Developer Reference for Managed Code Alex Read More...
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