What Is a Form Control?
A form control is a graphical object that allows a user to interact with an InfoPath form so that they in some way affect the XML data that will be submitted from the form. Several InfoPath form controls are very similar to form controls in conventional HTML forms. For example, the InfoPath text box control corresponds closely to the text box produced by an HTML input element.
Some InfoPath form controls, such as a text box, have visual features and interactivity properties that are familiar to many developers and users because of the availability of identical or similar form controls in traditional HTML forms and Windows forms created using Visual Basic. Others, such as the repeating section control, will be unfamiliar ...
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