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Another super-helpful place to get help on InfoPath

Check out this location. Seems to be pretty active http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?lang=en&cr=US&dg=microsoft.public.infopath . Some people who I'm in contact with are very diligent about responding to questions posted Read More...
Posted Friday, August 03, 2007 12:25 PM by timpash | 0 Comments

Tips and Tricks for Tuning Forms Services Performance

Folks, I'm hearing a lot of issues about people having trouble getting InfoPath 2007 forms published to Forms Services on MOSS 2007 to run well. People complain that the rendering and roundtripping operations just take too darn long. There is some guidance Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 02, 2007 2:50 PM by timpash | 9 Comments

Copying Data from a Secondary Datasource to a Child Table in a Main Datasource

This code sample documents a block of VB.Net code I had to write recently for retrieving a block of data from a secondary datasource, and then copying that data into a child table of a dataset in the main datasource. I've copied it over as is for my benefit Read More...
Posted Friday, February 23, 2007 10:41 AM by timpash | 2 Comments
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XPathNavigator Control in VB.NET

VB.NET and probably the other managed code languages uses a new syntax for specifying nodes and traversing XML in a form. I don't claim to have a firm grasp on this, I only know what works. Let's say you've got a field in your form whose value you set Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 15, 2007 8:14 PM by timpash | 0 Comments
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Custom Task Panes in InfoPath 2007 Using VB.NET

Folks, Just starting to get involved in dealing with VB.NET and VSTA in InfoPath 2007. A lot of what I've taken for granted in InfoPath 2003 and JScript no longer applies. Take Custom Task Panes for example. A neat idea, and super-useful. Doesn't work Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 15, 2007 8:02 PM by timpash | 0 Comments
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New Control for Picking People out of the GAL

From http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms496491.aspx . This basically provides a control for GAL selection that supercedes my custom code that appears earlier in this blog. From what I'm reading, this is strictly a Forms Services thing from MOSS Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 05, 2006 5:53 PM by timpash | 0 Comments

Retrieving URL Path With No Code

Recent request from a customer: What we need to be able to do is to somehow programmatically access, in infopath, the sharepoint form library folder name from which the form was opened. Cool way to get this done (from Scott Heim's inexhaustible code sample Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 19, 2006 11:44 PM by timpash | 1 Comments

InfoPath 2007 No Code UserName Retrieval

Just posted on using C# and the new object model in InfoPath 2007 to retrieve the current user. I have 3 other posts that deal with this issue as well. Believe it or not, the product team has actually addressed this in with a no code solution in InfoPath Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 22, 2006 10:33 AM by timpash | 1 Comments

Getting Current User in InfoPath 2007 via C#

Folks, Got a little code sample from a fellow watcher of Pashman's Goldmine (thanks Huseyin) on how to retreive the username of the current user via C# code. Since all code samples are useful, I've posted it below: public void FormEvents_Loading( object Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 22, 2006 10:21 AM by timpash | 2 Comments
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Programmatically Launching Another Form from Within a Form

Application.XDocuments.NewFromSolution(urlToXsnFile) or Application.XDocuments.Open(urlToXmlFile) Your form will need to require full trust in order to use either of these OM methods. Keep it simple, right? Tim Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 27, 2006 5:46 PM by timpash | 1 Comments
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Return Solution Version in an Expression Box

Folks, Don't claim to understand this 100%, but I do know it works. Put this formula inside a formula dialog box for an expression box on your form, and when you invoke it it'll show you the current solution version - without having to write code! substring-before(substring-after(/processing-instruction(), Read More...
Posted Friday, June 16, 2006 12:23 PM by timpash | 0 Comments

Manipulating Secondary Datasources using C#

Hey folks, Like many of you, I'm being dragged into the land of managed code in order to achieve things that I've had oodles of JScript code samples to do for a long time. The InfoPath Toolkit for VS.NET allows you to write code in either VB or C#; since Read More...
Posted Monday, June 12, 2006 8:43 AM by timpash | 0 Comments
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Increasing the TimeOut Value on Database Submit

Folks, Had an issue recently where a user of one of my solutions had pretty terrible bandwidth to the SQL server where they needed to submit data. The default timeout value on submits is 30 seconds. As it turn out, the default for queries too is 30 seconds. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 31, 2006 8:57 AM by timpash | 0 Comments
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Functionality Lost in InfoPath 2007 "Web-Enabled" Forms

Quick update to this post (6/7/2007). Saw this article http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa945450(VS.80).aspx which is pretty comprehensive on this topic. Worth a read. Folks, Getting tired of waiting for a list to be published, so will start to Read More...
Posted Monday, May 22, 2006 9:17 AM by timpash | 4 Comments

Awesome Webcast on Digital Signatures in InfoPath

Folks, I had to skill up recently on the use of digital signatures in InfoPath, and this webcast I found is pretty amazing. I had no idea how rich the support in InfoPath for digital signatures was, and this webcast goes into *deep* detail. I found myself Read More...
Posted Friday, April 14, 2006 7:47 AM by timpash | 1 Comments
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