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InfoPath & SharePoint screencast demo

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 few
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Why InfoPath?

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 an InfoPath
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"InfoPath isn't part of Office"

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 Office Pro
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Why hasn't anyone heard of InfoPath?

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
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Creating a web service for an InfoPath form in 25 easy steps

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 out your form,
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Stupid SQL Tricks

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
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Emailing a different InfoPath form

Enable an InfoPath form to post another form via email.
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Creating a Structured Product Labeling Editor

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 XML
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Healthcare / HL7 solution

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
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InfoPath Context Sensitive Help

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
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Why Smart Clients?

... 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 can
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