Re: Visual Studio 2008 vs Office InfoPath to create forms

ehaze — Fri, 21 May 2010 18:22:12 GMT

i'm working on a project/form with tons of code. the form needs to be used in more than one site (same collection).

would Visual Studio have any benefit over InfoPath in this situation?

Re: Visual Studio 2008 vs Office InfoPath to create forms

Jimmy — Fri, 21 May 2010 18:14:14 GMT

I haven't used VS 2008 to create InfoPath forms, though I have used 2005.

Using Visual Studio is better if you plan to have forms with code, and share them in source control among a development team. The form's parts are automatically stored as their individual files instead of an XSN, and these are included in the Visual Studio project.

If you create a form in InfoPath and then add code to it from InfoPath, the code will be created in a completely separate location of your hard drive (usually), and the path to the code will be stored as an absolute path instead of a relative one, which makes the project harder to share among a team.

Then again, if you only want to make forms without code (which I recommend if you can get by without it), then making the forms in InfoPath is the simpler option.

Visual Studio 2008 vs Office InfoPath to create forms

ehaze — Fri, 21 May 2010 17:58:06 GMT

Why would you use one over the other?

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