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  Thursday, March 13, 2003

A little InfoPath tip


Like a lot of folks, I've been investigating InfoPath since Beta 2 became available to MSDN Universal subscribers earlier this week.  I've been able to get a few things to work, though the lack of documentation has made things difficult.  I don't have a sense yet of the range of things I should be able to do, and unlike many of the folks who have been talking it up lately, I don't have anyone more knowledgeable about it to show me things.

Anyway, here's one thing I discovered that has made my investigation a little easier.  I read in a faq that the files that are contained in the xsn file (which is really a CAB file) could also be separate files in a folder.  I generated a simple xsn file, used WinZip to extract all of the files into a directory, and tried to open manifest.xsf.  InfoPath complained that I wasn't opening it through the xsn file.  Then I edited manifest.xsf and removed the publishUrl attribute from the document element (xsf:xDocumentClass), tried to open it again, and everything worked.  This setup made it a lot easier to experiment with changing the xml,  xsd and xsl files that InfoPath uses.

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