Designing Forms for Microsoft Office InfoPath and Forms Services 2007 (Microsoft .NET Development Series)

by: Scott Roberts, Hagen Green
Designing Forms for Microsoft Office InfoPath and Forms Services 2007 (Microsoft .NET Development Series)
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"Microsoft Office InfoPath represents arevolutionary leap in XML technologies and a new paradigm for gatheringbusiness-critical information. I am delighted that Scott Roberts andHagen Green, two distinguished members of the InfoPath product team,decided to share their experience in this book."

--From the Foreword by Jean Paoli, cocreator of XML 1.0 and Microsoft Office InfoPath

MicrosoftOffice InfoPath 2007 offers breakthrough tools for gathering, managing,and integrating business-critical information, and creating efficientforms-driven processes. Two longtime members of Microsoft's InfoPathproduct team have written the first comprehensive, hands-on guide tobuilding successful XML-based solutions with InfoPath 2007.

Thebook opens with a practical primer on the fundamentals of InfoPath formtemplate design for information workers and application developers atall levels of experience. It then moves into advanced techniques forcustomizing, integrating, and extending form templates--with all thecode examples and detail needed by professional developers.

Learn how to:

  • Designform templates: create blank form templates, insert and customizecontrols, use advanced formatting, and construct and lay out views
  • Work with data: start with XML data or schema, manually edit data sources, and understand design-time visuals
  • Add custom business logic to forms, and integrate them with other applications
  • Retrieveand query data from external data sources, including XML files,databases, SharePoint lists, Web services, and ADO.NET DataSets
  • Submit and receive form data using ADO.NET
  • Save, preview, and publish to e-mail, SharePoint, and more
  • Build reusable components with template parts
  • Create workflows with SharePoint and InfoPath E-Mail Forms
  • Administer Forms Services and Web-enabled form templates
  • Build advanced form templates using C# form code, custom controls, add-ins, and the new InfoPath 2007 managed object model
  • Design form templates using Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO)
  • Update, secure, and optimize your form templates

List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword
Preface
About the Authors

PART I: Designing Forms
Chapter 1: Introduction to InfoPath 2007
Chapter 2: Basics of InfoPath Form Design
Chapter 3: Working with Data
Chapter 4: Advanced Controls and Customization
Chapter 5: Adding Logic without Code
Chapter 6: Retrieving Data from External Sources
Chapter 7: Extended Features of Data Connections
Chapter 8: Submitting Form Data
Chapter 9: Saving and Publishing
Chapter 10: Building Reusable Components
Chapter 11: Security and Deployment
Chapter 12: Creating Reports
Chapter 13: Workflow
Chapter 14: Introduction to Forms Services
Part II: Advanced Form Design
Chapter 15: Writing Code in InfoPath
Chapter 16: Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007
Chapter 17: Advanced Forms Services
Chapter 18: Hosting InfoPath
Chapter 19: Building Custom Controls Using ActiveX Technologies
Chapter 20: Add-ins
Chapter 21: Importers and Exporters
Appendix: Further Reading
Index


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Average Rating: out of 5 stars
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Lots of information in one book
This book is good for people with prior programming or that are highly efficient at the Microsoft Office Suite. I haven't been able to locate a manual on Infopath for dumbies, or for someone who doesn't know programming. The product is good, but it's not for beginners for sure.
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Perfect Book
This book is exactly what I needed - we're interested in using InfoPath as part of an electronic document routing system NOT using SharePoint.A lot of resources out there combine IP with SharePoint, so this book is really good for people looking at alternative ways to use/deploy InfoPath.I took a 2-day intro class to IP and this book is taking me the rest of the way - it covers all the advanced features and topics, and includes lots of insider tips and tricks that an inexperienced user like me ... Read More
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Good book for InfoPath
The book is very informative. The only problem I see is there should be a CD with the book. The CD should have tutorials and an e-book. Thank you.
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - best book so far
we have several InfoPath developers books at my office and this is the only one people use. I don't think it's perfect, but it is by far the best you're going to find out there, so I'll give it five stars until something better comes along.
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - From the Ground Up
21 chapters 1158 pages, explains the blueprint planning process required for building forms. (This design process is outstanding and teaches at a very user friendly, yet indepth level. The first 12 Chapters teaches just how InfoPath recieves, maintains, process XML Code from nodes /leaf nodes to XML files. Explains the Layout, adding controls, Data Source and Data source binding, Creating multi Views for printing and viewing information and lastly methods of deployment including security.
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