| The book opens with a practical primer on the fundamentals of InfoPath form template design for information workers & application developers at all levels of experience. It then moves into advanced techniques for customizing, integrating, and extending form templates - with all the code examples & detail needed by professional developers. Learn how to:
- Design form templates: create blank form templates, insert & customize controls, use advanced formatting, and construct & 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;
- Retrieve & query data from external data sources, including XML files, databases, SharePoint lists, Web services, and ADO.NET DataSets;
- Submit & 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 & InfoPath E-Mail Forms;
- Administer Forms Services and Web-enabled form templates;
- Build advanced form templates using C# form code, custom controls, add-ins, & the new InfoPath 2007 managed object model;
- Design form templates using Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO);
- Update, secure, and optimize your form templates. | |
