Newbie Questions

Re: Newbie question: Which language is best for Infopath 2007

Hilary Stoupa — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 15:20:11 GMT

I did a little web search - it looks as if VSTA may be available for all Office products, not just InfoPath - you're on 2007, and I'm not sure if the article I saw was just for 2010 - but it looks like you could in the install select .NET Programability support for all the different Office products. They you could use C# for Excel too, which would be quite cool.... again, I don't know for sure on this....

Re: Newbie question: Which language is best for Infopath 2007

Derek Megyesi — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:08:26 GMT

Derek Megyesi:

Great. Thanks HIllary. I have never coded in C# before, so will be a good (new) thing to learn.

Hi Hillary,

I am caught at this crossroads once more. I just wanted to get your professional thoughts/advice. I am thinking that for InfoPath coding, it would be better to use C# since I can get custom code help from the blogs and this forums. However, for Excel type macro coding, I can create it using VB scripting. Does this sound like a good plan?

Cheers,
Derek

Re: Newbie question: WHich language is best for Infopath 2007

Derek Megyesi — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:36:36 GMT

Great. Thanks HIllary. I have never coded in C# before, so will be a good (new) thing to learn.

Re: Newbie question: WHich language is best for Infopath 2007

Hilary Stoupa — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:26:20 GMT

Hey, Derek:

You'll want to stay away from JScript & VBScript - as of IP 2010, they are deprecated. No point in even messing around with them. Plus, no Intellisense (yeah, I'm spoiled).

I would encourage you to use C#, unless you already have Visual Basic knowledge. I've seen a lot more C# samples on the boards than Visual Basic - so I think you'll have an easier time finding code samples. However, if you are a confident Visual Basic programmer, MSDN will have all the info you need to make InfoPath programming easier - you won't really need to rely on code samples in blog posts and such.

Newbie question: WHich language is best for Infopath 2007

Derek Megyesi — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:04:47 GMT

Hi all,

Can somone provide a list of the pros/cons of the various programming languages (form template code languages)?

1. JScript

2. VBScript

3. C#

4. Visual Basic

I am currently using Visual Basic, but I am worried that this is the wrong language to be using? Any advice?

Derek

derek.megyesi at hotmail dot com