VSTO 3.0 for Office 2007 Programming

Chapter 2. Microsoft Office InfoPath Programming

Microsoft Office InfoPath, as the name suggests, is a part of the Microsoft Office Tool suite. InfoPath aids programmers, as well as Microsoft Office users. Programmers can use InfoPath to design XML-based forms, and users of Office applications can open these forms and easily enter data into them. Microsoft Office InfoPath was first released as a part of Microsoft Office 2003, but has been considerably enhanced since then.

In this chapter, we'll discuss the following:

• InfoPath 2007 in Visual Studio (UI and installation), including how to start an InfoPath solution in Visual Studio 2008
• Creating an InfoPath solution—object model, and object model functional area
• Events in InfoPath—form-level events, ...