InfoPath Dev

Here is my scenario, 1. We have some forms which need to be passed around and updated then saved back to the file system, and periodically submitted to a web service via their data connections. (The forms contain various specifications). 2. Most users can access xsn's from an internal website and xml files from the file system. 3. External users ...

VS2003 allowed you to use the free IP SDK regform.exe utility. If you have 2005, this no longer works. I believe the only way to deal with this is to buy VS Tools for Office which is several hundred USD. As someone who upgraded to VS2005 and can no longer use regform, I am really quite fed up! If anyone knows a workaround I would love to hear ...

This works for me. I didn't have to do anything explicit in security (have to say I am not an expert on this yet though). Clive Glover

If you are designing your own web service, take a look at this: http://blogs.msdn.com/philoj/archive/2005/11/08/490200.aspx Clive Glover

This is a tool which helped me with a problem:http://www.fiddlertool.com/fiddler/ It lets you see the xml that Infopath is sending. Works straight out of the box and is free. Clive Glover

Karsten, Skully, I cannot get this to work unfortunately. I am trying to create an MSI and am still getting the 'won't support V8' message. Good thing I still have a machine with only VS 2003 on, but not exactly convenient! If you have any ideas... Clive

Oops - wrong button... What I was about to say was, 127.0.0.1 nameofyourproductionserver When you are not doing IP development you will have to delete this line. A bit of vb script should allow you to have two hosts files and swap them using a shortcut. Clive

John, Thanks - this works perfectly. For anyone unfamiliar with this file: add the line 127.0.0.1

It's the new thing - reply to your own postings! I have gone for the code route - see MS labs 11 for more info. The trick is to use the XDocument::OnContextChange event to store your selected node in a global variable, then use this value in the customized XDocument::OnMergeRequest event. Clive

I kept VS 2003 along with the new 2005 and discovered that regform stops working. This is apparently a known bug - seehttp://www.blogger.com/publish-comment.do?blogID=13992955&postID=113951903983748379&r=ok&mod=true Not having an msdn subscription and not wanting to spend quite a lot of cash on VSTO I have had to do my regforming on another ...