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New InfoPath content on the web
I wanted to take a moment to recognize the great work of the Microsoft writers and editors who have been cranking out InfoPath content over the last few months. While we in the product team have clicked over into Office 14 mode, they have continued to Read More...
How to Integrate the .NET Framework SDK Documentation with VSTA
The .NET Framework 2.0 SDK documentation includes the Visual Basic and Visual C# language references, as well as the documentation for the .NET Framework classes. You can download and integrate this documentation into the Help viewer for the Visual Studio Read More...
Displaying Contextual Help in a Custom Task Pane
With all the wonderful features in the new Office apps, it's easy to get lost! InfoPath is no exception, and when you make clever use of the new features, you'll want to make sure that users understand how your form is supposed to work. Wouldn't it be Read More...
Transforming InfoPath Rich Text to Word
This article applies to InfoPath 2003 and Word 2003. Summary InfoPath is great for capturing structured data. A common scenario is that you need to output that data in a Word document. It is quite easy to create an XSLT transformation that will take the Read More...
SQL Server 2005, Part III: Magic of Structured Search
You were patient enough to read through my ramblings about why Yukon and InfoPath are a match made in heaven , and how to set up basic interop . But these two articles left you dreaming of more. Well, that was their purpose :-). Magic begins: Structure-aware Read More...
Get the User Profile through MOSS Web Services
It is now easier than ever to pre-populate your InfoPath 2007 forms with the user profile information of the current user. Background: In Microsoft SharePoint Server 2003, the UserProfileService.GetUserProfileByName (string accountName ) web service method Read More...
Enabling InfoPath IntelliSense Documentation in VSTA and Visual Studio
The Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 setup program installs two .xml files that are designed to display programming information from the Class Library reference inline in the Code Editor and the Object Browser when working with members of the Microsoft.Office.InfoPath Read More...
MSDN Community Content
All Office InfoPath 2007 developer documentation that is published online in the MSDN Library now supports the MSDN Community Content features that enable users to comment on, edit, and add content to online documentation. We would like to encourage you Read More...
Passing Data into a Form: Input Parameters
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...
Forms Services and multiple IIS Web Applications
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...
Using the Events Manager of the InfoPath Hosted Control
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...
InfoPath and Yukon: The Details
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...
New MSDN resources
Some new MSDN resources to check out: 1) Microsoft Office Forms Server 2007 SDK 2) InfoPath Developer Reference for Managed Code Alex Read More...
Submitting to a Database (via Web Services) in InfoPath Forms Services
If you've ever designed and deployed a form that will be frequently used or require significant data analysis, you have probably looked into maintaining data in a SQL database . With InfoPath 2003 and the InfoPath 2007 rich client, you get what you expect. Read More...
Sniffing Code in Form Templates
With the introduction of InfoPath Forms Services for MOSS 2007, clever management of form template deployment will probably become a must for most IT departments. You'll want to be sure that form templates are not draining server resources. You'll especially Read More...
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