Infopath to Word in the new .NET 2005 Beta

[K''''ur]

Hi,

Would like to know if anybody is aware of the new Infopath for VS.NET 2005
Beta, if this new infopath in VS 2005 will allow exporting forms to MS word
in a straightforward way, or will it be the same gruelling way as in the
existing version.

Sincerely,
Keyur Shah

 

[Franck Dauché]

Hi,

There isn't a new version of InfoPath, but there is a new bridge for
InfoPath 2003 on the VS.Net 2005 Beta2 install disk. As a result, the
InfoPath features are the same, but the code behind can be upgraded to 2005.

Regards,

Franck Dauché

 

[K''''ur]

Thank you Franck,

But a colleague of mine told me that there are some changes to this version
of Infopath, and one of that he told me is it will be entirely server based
now, so that the client will not require to install infopath copy on each
workstation.

Please clear my confusion.
I appreciate your response

Thanks,
Keyur Shah

 

[Franck Dauché]

I am not aware of the changes that your colleague is talking about. But,
because InfoPath itself is not upgraded, I do not see how any runtime
behavior could be modified (especially because people can still use scripting
behind the forms).

Check this link: http://blogs.msdn.com/infopath/

Maybe a MS Support Engineer could jump in on this one...

Franck Dauché

 

[G. Tarazi]

I guess you are talking about InfoPath 12, not 2005, Office 12 is the one
demoed yesterday in the PDC, but thy just demoed Word and Excel.



They will be releasing office 12 in the Windows Vista timeframe, so I am
assuming InfoPath will be in the same period of time.



http://www.neowin.net/staff/creamhackered/office12/word12.jpg

http://www.neowin.net/staff/creamhackered/office12/powerpoint12.jpg

http://www.neowin.net/staff/creamhackered/office12/excel12.jpg

http://www.neowin.net/staff/creamhackered/office12/access12.jpg



From what I was able to understand from different blogs on the net, here are
some expected features:



InfoPath 12 will be very well integrated in outlook; there was just one
screen yesterday at the PDC that was showing that.



There is concentration on improving the performance, it is so poor today,
especially when your InfoPath form is 20 pages + long; I hope they improve
that in InfoPath 12.



They will have something like an InfoPath server, a Word Server, an Excel
Server perhaps, or maybe just a Document Server, or an Office Server, don't
know much details, but the idea of the server is to help generating the
documents, not replacing the client side.



I wish if I can just save an InfoPath form to the server, and the server to
take the responsibility of splitting this form to tables in a database, and
retrieve it back, but this is just a wish, I am doing this today manually at
my project.



It would be wonderful if the future server just converts the form to a word
document, and sent it back as WordML report.



The changes yesterday in Word and Excel 12 were amazing, I was really
impressed, and these 2 products are there from years, it is not easy to get
impressed by them and I was, so I hope when they demo InfoPath 12 it would
be as impressive as Word 12.



Good Luck MS

 

[K''''ur]

Tarazi, thank you for your insight. Appreciate your help.

Regards,
Keyur Shah

 

[Franck Dauché]

If you are still around, here is a link of interest to you:
http://www.thefutureofamerica.com/hiptop/90/parse.php?url=http://blogs.msdn.com/infopath/

Regards,

Franck Dauché