Programming Forms with VBScript or JScript

Most Office System applications use Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) as their application programming language. Office’s Visual Basic Editor (VBE) makes it easy to add or modify macros or, in the case of Access, code behind forms or in modules. InfoPath 2003 departs from this norm by using Microsoft JScript or Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) and the Microsoft Script Editor (MSE) as the default code editing tool to customize the behavior of forms. JScript is InfoPath’s default scripting language, but you can change the default to VBScript. The next section, “Programming Forms with Visual Basic .NET Code” describes this book’s preferred alternative to scripting InfoPath ...

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