InfoPath 2010 and Forms Services

InfoPath 2010 is a way for Information Workers, IT or Developers to create robust user interfaces for Office Business Applications. InfoPath provides a rich form design experience and InfoPath Forms Services can render these forms in the browser. This unit covers development of custom SharePoint List Forms and workflows, publishing InfoPath Forms and connecting external data to InfoPath Forms.

Hands-On Labs

  • InfoPath and Forms Services Lab

    In this lab, you will use InfoPath to define custom forms to aid in the entry of time tracking data for Contoso Corporation. This system will use rich InfoPath forms to manage entry of employees and timesheet data. To provide a complete view of the system, the site’s main page contains web parts to provide contextual information to the user. Please note that Demos are in the Source folder.

Videos

  • What is InfoPath 2010?

    InfoPath 2010 is a way for Information Workers, IT, or Developers to create robust user interfaces for Office Business Applications. This video introduces the capabilities of InfoPath, the form design experience, InfoPath Forms Services and the InfoPath Form Web Part.

  • List Forms using InfoPath 2010

    This video covers how to develop a no-code, custom InfoPath form for a SharePoint List, publish the InfoPath form and then connect the InfoPath form to another List as an additional data source.

  • Working Offline with InfoPath 2010

    This video discusses offline support for InfoPath 2010 with SharePoint Workspace 2010 and the online/offline synchronization process.

  • InfoPath 2010 and Visual Studio

    Developers can enhance InfoPath 2010 Forms with Code Behind using Visual Studio Tools for Applications. This customization can be done in either C# or VB. This video also explains how SharePoint isolates custom code in its Sandbox environment.