Get expert guidance and best practices for building end-to-end business solutions with InfoPath.
Build innovative, XML-based solutions faster - with expert guidance from three veterans of the Microsoft InfoPath design team. The authors explain how to use common InfoPath design patterns to accelerate the development of forms with a dynamic, easy-to-use front end that connects seamlessly with middle-tier services and back-end servers - including databases, Web services, and Microsoft BizTalk Server. They"ll walk you through a range of programming scenarios - explaining the pros and cons of various approaches and sharing their best practices and undocumented tips. You"ll also learn from their real-world examples, including a complete three-tier business solution.
Discover how to:
- Customize and deploy your own InfoPath forms, taking advantage of ready-made sample code.
- Create "smart" InfoPath forms to provide a dynamic experience using conditional visibility, data validation, and autopopulation.
- Design a rich form interface with structured and dynamic sections, multiple views, and calculations.
- Build forms-based workflow processing into InfoPath forms using e-mail, Microsoft SharePoint servers, and BizTalk.
- Use the Microsoft .NET common language runtime-based object model to increase development flexibility.
- Send and receive data for your forms using back-end databases and Web services. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Developing Solutions with Microsoft InfoPath (Patrick Halstead, Vani Mandava-Teredesai and Matthew Blain)