Designing Forms With Microsoft Office Infopath and Forms Services 2007

""Microsoft Office InfoPath represents a revolutionary leap in XML technologies and a new paradigm for gathering business-critical information. I am delighted that Hagen Green and Scott Roberts, two distinguished members of the InfoPath product team, decided to share their experience in this book.""--Jean Paoli, cocreator of XML 1.0 and Microsoft Office InfoPathMicrosoft Office InfoPath 2007 offers breakthrough tools for gathering, managing, and integrating business-critical information, and creating efficient forms-driven processes. Two leaders of Microsoft's InfoPath development team have written the first comprehensive, hands-on guide to building successful XML-based solutions with InfoPath 2007. The book opens with a practical primer on the fundamentals of InfoPath forms development for information workers and application developers at all levels of experience. It then moves into advanced techniques for customizing forms and creating sophisticated workflows--with all the code examples and detail needed by professional developers. Learn how to: Utilize form templates: design dialogs and layouts, create blank forms, and use advanced formatting Work with data: Start with XML data or schema, manually edit data sources, and use design-time visuals Add custom business logic to forms, and integrate them with other applications--often, without coding Use advanced controls and customization Retrieve external data, including secondary data sources Submit form data using ADO.NET Save, preview, and publish Build reusable components with template parts Create workflows with SharePoint and InfoPath E-Mail Forms Use Forms Services: "InfoPath in the Browser" Build advanced forms usingcode-behind, custom controls, add-ins, and the InfoPath object model Leverage Visual Studio Tools for InfoPath 2007 Secure, optimize, and deploy your applicationsRoberts, Scott is the author of 'Designing Forms With Microsoft Office Infopath and Forms Services 2007 ', published 2007 under ISBN 9780321410597 and ISBN 0321410599.