Designing Forms for Microsoft Office InfoPath and Forms Services 2007 (Microsoft .NET Development Series)

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Customer Reviews:

Best MS InfoPath 2007 book [Posted on 2007-11-27]
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".

Everything you need to know, but you have to hunt for it!  [Posted on 2008-01-10]
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.

Great content and narrattive [Posted on 2008-02-08]
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.

From the Ground Up [Posted on 2008-05-04]
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"

best book so far [Posted on 2008-06-19]
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.

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