Books on eForms Technologies
June 6, 2004
There is a growing list of books covering the emerging eForms technologies, especially books about InfoPath and XForms. I have been maintaining a list on my eForms resources page, but thought it would be worth highlighting here as well.
Amazon.com: Books: Professional InfoPath 2003
Professional InfoPath 2003, Ian Williams, Pierre Greborio. From the back cover: "Microsoft InfoPath 2003 helps developers tackle forms-based information-gathering with the full range of XML technologies. This book quickly guides experienced Office and XML developers through InfoPath fundamentals, including XML form templates architecture, form definition file structure, available external data sources, and backend services. From there, you'll delve into validation and updating forms, both during development and as business needs change. Finally, you'll examine the InfoPath security model, learning to implement and deploy trusted forms. The second part of this book is an intensive case study covering metadata processing, exporting XML data to Excel for analysis, and much more."
Amazon.com: Books: How to Do Everything with Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 (How to Do Everything)
As quoted from Amazon.com: "Use this amazingly practical and powerful Microsoft Office application like a pro with help from this all-inclusive guide. You'll learn how to design and customize electronic forms and easily integrate form data into a wide variety of systems and applications. Create simple to complex forms and master the built-in formatting options including layout tables, borders, color schemes, and more. Filled with step-by-step essentials and real-world examples, this book shows you how to take full advantage of InfoPath's key features so you can save time and streamline the information-gathering process."
Amazon.com: Books: XForms Essentials
This is the first authoritative book on an important new topic. Dubinko is one of the primary contributors to the W3C working group, and the book has been reviewed extensively by his peers.
Introducing Microsoft� Office InfoPath™ 2003
Upcoming book from Microsoft Press (due out 5/26/04): Marketing Blurb: Get up to speed with Microsoft Office InfoPath--and revolutionize the way your organization gathers, processes, and analyzes information. This tutorial illuminates key features and demonstrates how to design, build, and use effective InfoPath forms.
Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 SP-1 Examples, Book, and Articles
The OakLeaf Systems Web site offers examples of production-grade XML Web services for retrieving and updating data in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 databases. Visual Studio .NET's ASP.NET and Visual Basic .NET generate the site's Web pages and services. The examples include services that create and retrieve XML documents persisted in a 1-GB database and transform the XML content to well-formed XHTML for presentation. A subsite dedicated to Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 describes use of Visual Basic .NET managed code behind InfoPath 2003 SP-1 forms.
XForms Essentials Online
The complete online version of Micah Dubinko's book.
Posted by Bill Trippe at June 6, 2004 4:07 PM
