Programming Forms with Visual Basic .NET Code

One of InfoPath SP-1’s most important new features is the ability to create InfoPath Form Projects, which substitute managed Visual Basic .NET or Visual C# code behind forms for VBScript or JScript. It’s probably easier for most Office developers and Visual Basic 6.0 coders to adapt to Visual Basic .NET than learn JScript. Your expenditure of time and energy learning Visual Basic .NET will deliver a much higher return on investment than a transition to JScript or downlevel VBScript, which some analysts call “Microsoft’s forgotten language.”

To take advantage of InfoPath Form Projects, you must have Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Professional edition or higher, or the $99 (estimated retail price) ...

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