Learn how to use common design patterns to build innovative, XML-based enterprise solutions faster—with guidance from two veterans of the Microsoft InfoPath development team. A new program in the Microsoft Office System, InfoPath offers a rich development environment for creating a dynamic, easy-to-use, forms-based front end for business process and workflow solutions. The authors walk you through a three-tiered solution featuring InfoPath as the client, Web services and Microsoft BizTalk® in the middle tier, and Microsoft SQL Server™, Microsoft Exchange Server, or line-of-business applications on the back end. You’ll learn best practices for using the most common design and deployment patterns to expedite your development efforts. And you’ll see InfoPath in action through a series of vertical industry case-study examples.
Key Book Benefits:
- Provides the expert guidance, best practices, and implementation examples you need to develop end-to-end business solutions with InfoPath
- Accelerates your productivity by detailing common design patterns that simplify the development and deployment process
- Takes you inside a sample three-tier business solution, as well as providing case study examples in different industries
- Authors are expert developers who have worked on and with Microsoft’s development team for InfoPath