Form Events, Properties, and Methods

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Conclusion

This chapter introduced InfoPath development with VSTO. You learned how to create a new VSTO InfoPath project based on a new form or an existing form. The chapter also covered key objects that you will code against, including InfoPath's Application object, the XDocument object (which represents a form), the View object, and objects passed as parameters to events such as the DataDOMEvent object.

This chapter also examined the InfoPath security model. You learned how a form is granted a particular security level, such as restricted, domain, or full trust. The chapter also covered InfoPath's data model and key data events such as OnBeforeChange, OnValidate, and OnAfterChange. You also read about the InfoPath's form object model and how to handle key events, including OnLoad, a button click handler, OnContextChange, and OnSubmitRequest.

As you have no doubt discovered while working through the examples in this chapter, InfoPath development differs quite a bit from the Excel, Word, and Outlook development experience. Whenever you add an event handler, you must do so using the menus and commands in InfoPathyou never use Visual Studio to add an event handler. Event handlers do not follow the traditional .NET event model of declaring new delegates and adding them to an event source using the += syntax of C#. Instead, methods that will handle InfoPath events are attributed. These attributes are somewhat difficult to create and edithence the need to have the InfoPath menus and dialogs generate these handlers for you. Finally, InfoPath development differs from Excel and Outlook because the "design view" of an InfoPath form is the InfoPath application window, not a designer that shows up in place within Visual Studio.

This book does not cover InfoPath in any additional detail. For more information on InfoPath programming, consult the MSDN page for InfoPath at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/odc_2003_ta/html/odc_ancInfo.asp.


Part One. An Introduction to VSTO

An Introduction to Office Programming

Introduction to Office Solutions

Part Two. Office Programming in .NET

Programming Excel

Working with Excel Events

Working with Excel Objects

Programming Word

Working with Word Events

Working with Word Objects

Programming Outlook

Working with Outlook Events

Working with Outlook Objects

Introduction to InfoPath

Part Three. Office Programming in VSTO

The VSTO Programming Model

Using Windows Forms in VSTO

Working with Actions Pane

Working with Smart Tags in VSTO

VSTO Data Programming

Server Data Scenarios

.NET Code Security

Deployment

Part Four. Advanced Office Programming

Working with XML in Excel

Working with XML in Word

Developing COM Add-Ins for Word and Excel

Creating Outlook Add-Ins with VSTO



Visual Studio Tools for Office(c) Using C# with Excel, Word, Outlook, and InfoPath
Visual Studio Tools for Office(c) Using C# with Excel, Word, Outlook, and InfoPath
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