Designing Forms for Microsoft Office InfoPath and Forms Services 2007 (Microsoft .NET Development Series)
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"Microsoft Office InfoPath represents a revolutionary leap in XML technologies and a new paradigm for gathering business-critical information. I am delighted that Scott Roberts and Hagen 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 Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 offers breakthrough tools for gathering, managing, and integrating business-critical information, and creating efficient forms-driven processes. Two longtime members of Microsoft's InfoPath product 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 form template design for information workers and 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 and detail needed by professional developers. Learn how to:
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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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| 06-19-08 | 5 | (NA) |
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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.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-09-01 04:49:37 EST)
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| 05-04-08 | 5 | (NA) |
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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.
InfoPath can now be tweaked for almost any "form" requirements you can think up and without the use of any code writing. But for you XML code wizards, Chapter 15,16 goes indepth on Event Bubbling, adding Password code, and many other XML code writing subjects including the use of Visual Studio. I myself found it to be useful knowledge, even if I never alter a line of code, though mostlikely I will. I would have to say this book covers every aspect of Form Design including E-Mail deployment, web deployment and lastly local server deployment. If you plan to build a InfoPath form, this book is a must have reference. Get out your highlighter though! (Better yet, make it two or three). Good work by both, Scott and Hagen, including the entire InfoPath team. Bill>"M" (Review Data Last Updated: 2008-06-20 03:55:44 EST)
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| 05-04-08 | 5 | (NA) |
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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.
InfoPath can now be tweaked for almost any "form" requirements you can think up and without the use of any code writing. But for you XML code wizards, Chapter 15,16 goes indepth on Event Bubbling, adding Password code, and many other XML code writing subjects including the use of Visual Studio. I myself found it to be useful knowledge, even if I never alter a line of code, though mostlikely I will. I would have to say this book covers every aspect of Form Design including E-Mail deployment, web deployment and lastly local server deployment. If you plan to build a InfoPath form, this book is a must have reference. Get out your highlighter though! (Better yet, make it two or three). Good work by both, Scott and Hagen, including the entire InfoPath team. (Review Data Last Updated: 2008-06-18 03:54:28 EST)
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| 02-08-08 | 5 | 3\3 |
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As many of the previous reviews before mine can attest, this is a great book and one of many other definitive Infopath reference-literature for someone needing to work with Infopath on an ongoing professional environment.
What differentiates this book from others is its narrative. I have been reading IT technical books for 24 years now and very rarely I find a book so easy to follow. I didn't need that extra cafeine-hit to keep me awake after 20 minutes reading this book. I did need a PC beside me to practice what I was reading from time to time, and only because I like to bring thoughts come into life. However the book does enough on its own to keep you going without any yawns. (Review Data Last Updated: 2008-05-17 03:59:48 EST)
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| 01-10-08 | 4 | 1\1 |
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I've never written a review before, but I feel compelled. I'm in chapter 3. Don't be in a hurry; you might miss something very important buried in a page of text with little visual cues to lead you to it. Maybe the editors think if it looks more imposing and scholarly they can charge more for the book.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-02-09 21:43:05 EST)
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| 11-27-07 | 5 | (NA) |
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Most of the InfoPath books out there do not address Forms Services like this book does. Even if you have never worked with InfoPath or Forms Services before in your life, this 1223 page book takes you from the very basic topics to the very advanced. What makes this book The Best is that it actually addresses most of the problems InfoPath developers face when developing and deploying forms, specially in a web/intranet environment. For anyone and everyone who is or wants to work with InfoPath 2007, I can't think of a better reference than "Designing Forms for Microsoft Office InfoPath and Forms Services 2007".
(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-01-11 04:30:58 EST)
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| 06-16-07 | 5 | 1\1 |
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This is the first InfoPath book I have found answers every question I have had about InfoPath. The beauty of this book is although it does cover a lot of the technical side of InfoPath it also deals with some of the simpler solutions that are best achieved with just the InfoPath designer and declarative logic. With an easy to read style and lots of samples this book has become the definitive InfoPath resource in my technical library.
If you're just beginning with InfoPath this book is for you. If you've creating solutions with InfoPath since day one I'm still confident that this book would be a worthwhile investment. Good job guys! (Review Data Last Updated: 2007-11-28 10:19:32 EST)
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| 03-30-07 | 4 | 1\1 |
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This book is a great narrative style resource for learning all of the elements and techniques in InfoPath 2007. The style of writing is a bit different as it has more of a reading focus than a reference focus. So if you are looking for solely a reference book you might want something different. The authors are TOP NOTCH though and do an excellent job.(Especially with Forms Services gotcha's/warnings) The demos/samples/sample forms they let you download from the Addison Wesley website are WELL WORTH THE EFFORT of getting and are a great learning tool.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2007-04-12 11:57:53 EST)
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| 03-29-07 | 4 | 1\1 |
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This book is a great narrative style resource for learning all of the elements and techniques in InfoPath 2007. The style of writing is a bit different as it has more of a reading focus than a reference focus. So if you are looking for solely a reference book you might want something different. The authors are TOP NOTCH though and do an excellent job.(Especially with Forms Services gotcha's/warnings) The demos/samples/sample forms they let you download from the Addison Wesley website are WELL WORTH THE EFFORT of getting and are a great learning tool.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2007-04-11 11:23:56 EST)
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| 03-05-07 | 4 | 3\4 |
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This book was written by two Microsoft employees focused on InfoPath, and includes a foreword by InfoPath cocreator Jean Paoli. At ~1,200 pages, it's a timely and thorough resource for developers who need to understand InfoPath and Forms Services, including coverage of VSTA, VSTO, and other related topics. It's unsurprisingly a largely accentuate-the-positive book, but it also includes useful summaries of, for example, features that can be used in the InfoPath client but not in Forms Services.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2007-03-30 10:58:27 EST)
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| 03-03-07 | 5 | (NA) |
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As XML has become the industry standard, Microsoft has increasingly oriented its Office suite to use it. The latest result is this enhanced InfoPath, in its 2007 incarnation. The book is divided into two parts. Each targeting a different audience.
The first part is aimed at a general purpose Office user, who is not assumed to be a programmer. It addresses what is a problem plaguing XML. If you want to make a new XML schema to use as a template for future data instances, you often have to write the explicit XML tags. Unfortunately, the syntax can be overwhelming to many. Plus, explicitly writing the tags is extremely error prone. What InfoPath has done is make an easy to use graphical front end. Far friendlier to the user. This user interface then can generate a schema in a robust fashion. Even people capable of editing schemas directly might still want to use what Microsoft has provided. Along these lines, chapter 5 is a good example. While not perhaps directly concerning schema, it tackles the problem of validating what the user types into a form. It follows the approach that you should clean up your data as early as possible. Preferably before it even gets into the database. The UI lets you impose constraints on the user input into various fields of your form, by offering dialog windows with many options. All commendably straightforward. The second section of the text is mostly for programmers, who have already written code for Office. (Review Data Last Updated: 2007-03-05 15:42:02 EST)
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