Re: How to use infopath 2007 browser forms in custom ASP .NET 2.0 without Sharepoint server at back end?

Matt Faus — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 09:04:54 GMT

Hi Sandeep and welcome to the forums!

InfoPath is actually not a proprietary format from Microsoft, but is, in fact, completely XML standards compliant. If you change the .xsn extension to a .cab extension, then you can unpackage the template and look at all the underlying files. All of the files will be free text that you can read, unless you wrote managed code, which will be compiled into DLLs.

I have not done much ASP.NET programming, so I don't know how well I can answer that question, but we have made a "FormsViewer" server that takes XSNs made by you and servers them up over HTTP to your browser. It's not as feature rich as the others you mentioned, but it does work for simple viewing.

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How to use infopath 2007 browser forms in custom ASP .NET 2.0 without Sharepoint server at back end?

sandeep.rohilla — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 06:23:02 GMT

Can someone please guide me on, how can i use infopath forms in web browser via custom ASP.NET 2.0 application without Sharepoint at backend ?

InfoPath being in proprietary Microsoft Format, I believe, I would still require a server to create a new instance of infopath template (.xsn file) which it enables for browser view. Am I correct ?

Am aware of only two servers namely:

Share Point Server
Office Forms Server

which are capable to carry out operations on .xsn file (Infopath template) for browser view. Are there any more server which are capable of doing something similar.

Another, requirement I have is to submit this newly created form to a database. Is writing a web service the only way to achieve this?

Thanks in advance

Cheers,

Sandeep

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Re: How to use infopath 2007 browser forms in custom ASP .NET 2.0 without Sharepoint server at back end?

How to use infopath 2007 browser forms in custom ASP .NET 2.0 without Sharepoint server at back end?