Tuesday, February 1, 2005

Diving into InfoPath

Last week was a killer. Lost to do at work after my trip. I took last Monday off, so that helped with keeping the workload high for the rest of the week. Just glad that I am home, don't want to get stuck like that again.

Really getting deep into InfoPath development. A great resource can be found at InfoPathDev . Another good spot is the InfoPath Team Blog. I am pretty pleased with the flexibility of the product seeing how this is the first release. With this project we will be pushing it about as far as it can go. I think we are going to extract all of the files from the .xsn file and edit them separately. This will keep out source control system happy (it really only handles text not binary files like xsn) and enable us to do some of the data population that we will need to do. Our other big issue is security with the forms. As you may know, InfoPath wants to "phone home" to make sure that there are no form updates. We are having some issues with working offline because of that. I think we just need to do more research and testing. If anyone has any suggestions please post a comment or email me. Thanks.

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