Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005 EAN: 9780735621169 ISBN: 0735621160 Label: Microsoft Press Manufacturer: Microsoft Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 416 Publication Date: November 24, 2004 Publisher: Microsoft Press Sales Rank: 170623 Studio: Microsoft Press
Product DescriptionLearn how to use common design patterns to build innovative, XML-based enterprise solutions faster-with guidance from two veterans of the Microsoft InfoPath development team. A new program in the Microsoft Office System, InfoPath offers a rich development environment for creating a dynamic, easy-to-use, forms-based front end for business process and workflow solutions. The authors walk you through a three-tiered solution featuring InfoPath as the client, Web services and Microsoft BizTalk(r) in the middle tier, and Microsoft SQL Server(tm), Microsoft Exchange Server, or line-of-business applications on the back end. You'll learn best practices for using the most common design and deployment patterns to expedite your development efforts. And you'll see InfoPath in action through a series of vertical industry case-study examples.
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Rating: - Excellent book for advanced InfoPath topics
If you want to get more indepth with InfoPath, this is the book for you. It covers advanced topics to launch you into designing more powerful digital forms.
I especially enjoying the topics on workflow, sharepoint and Web service integration.
Rating: - Another Microsoft "Bookware"...
Just two comments:
1) This books fails to convince me that InfoPath is a necessary product at all. Looks like more bloatware from Microsoft. It is nothing more that a weak scripting technology. Microsoft should have used more time in better development for Access, or Excel, instead of creating some new package. But I know some people at MS, and I know that a new product there means another position for Product Unit Managers, Development Managers, Test Managers, etc. So, that is probably the ... Read More
Rating: - If you must code in InfoPath, this is the only book
With all due respect to my esteemed fellow InfoPath programmer, this is the only book worth owning if you have to code complex projects in InfoPath VBScript or JavaScript. InfoPath is supposed to be the world's most cutting edge XML tool. With it's strong hooks to Web Services, it's supposed to be a thin-client tool for th 21st century. But how do you code connections to a Web Service? How do you auto populate a form using information queried from a web service? How do you query a web service ... Read More
Rating: - Started good and then fizzled
I understand that it's probably not that easy to write a book for something like InfoPath. It's a powerful product that has tons of ins and outs; however, I expected much more for my money. Some of the examples in the book get shortchanged on explanation, and the reader is often left to fill in the gaps. In addition to that, some chapters, like chapter 10 don't even have functioning code. For instance, see if you can spot the error with this line of critical code:
- Excellent book for advanced InfoPath topics
- Another Microsoft "Bookware"...
- Started good and then fizzled
