Persist Secondary Data Sources - working offline

[Tim Philomeno]

When I was at TechEd, I thought that I had seen or heard of one of the things
you could do with Infopath was to define secondary data sources to support
data entry in the form and persist them to the local workstation....I have
since researched this and found only minor references to things like "use
embedded xml data" for this purpose.

Is there any documentation on how to accomplish this? I am envisioning
writing a bunch of code to retrieve data and write it to local xml datafiles
to allow the user to work offline and then having to update them when the
user is back on-line...in some cases, the secondary may consist of very large
sets of data....

Any thoughts would be appreciated....

Tim Philomeno, Sparling, Inc.

 

[Scott L. Heim [MSFT]]

Hi Tim,

Take a look at the Data Interop sample that ships with the InfoPath SDK -
it implements "Offline" capabilities. If you have installed the InfoPath
SDK in the default location, you will find this sample at:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 2003 Developer Resources\Microsoft Office
InfoPath 2003 SDK\Samples\DataInterop

If you have not yet installed the SDK, you can get if from the following
URL:

InfoPath SDK
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=351F0616-93AA-4FE8-
9238-D702F1BFBAB4&displaylang=en

I hope this helps!

Scott L. Heim
Microsoft Developer Support

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