IP 2k7 hosted in Windows Application

[Josiah Smith]

I've been messing around with VS2005 and hosting Infopath Forms. I've gotten
them to display, I'm using link labels to emulate the task pane we've used in
the infopath client, but I have two problems/questions for all you InfoPath
gurus:

1) I'm familiar with Borland's C++ IDE and how you could build any library
you needed into the application for a target machine that may not have that
library itself. Is it possible to build in the InfoPath required libraries
etc. into a custom windows app? (we tested it on a machine with Office 2k3
standard and had to add Office 2k7 with InfoPath minimum to run the
executable) I think it would be probable that MS would not enable that; it
would lead to this in-house app being distributed to an office versus
InfoPath Client on every machine. (yes, I know about the web forms, but the
reduced functionalities loose capabilities that are key to our implementation.

2) Is it possible to direct such an application to use form cache in the
same way that the full InfoPath Client does? The size of the views means
that when using the Full Client, the first use of each view takes almost a
minute, but the form cache is saved reducing the time each subsequent
instance/view. The application requires each view to be loaded just between
switching views, even during the same instance of the application.

Any tips or help would be greatly appreciated!!
Thanks,
Josiah

 

[Josiah Smith]

Well, I found the answer to the first question. As far as licensing goes,
InfoPath is required to be installed on the machine that designs the
application, as well as the machine that runs the final build of the
application (all end-users).

Still no idea with the form cache on the second question, though.

Josiah