Beginning InfoPath 2003

by F. Scott Barker

InfoPath creates forms for data gathering, analysis, and reporting InfoPath has been adopted by many companies, ranging from Toyota and Hewlett-Packard to M/I Homes and New York Presbyterian Hospital,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764579487
• ISBN13: 9780764579486
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A fantastic beginner's guide

I can't say enough good things about this book. I chose to buy it because of all the other positive reviews before mine. I already knew what InfoPath was capable of, I just needed someone to explain "how to." The tutorials and examples in the book are great. This book really helped me figure out everything I needed get my forms created and hooked up to a database. It's a very easy and quick read.

This is the missing manual for InfoPath

I have been thrust into the InfoPath world. I had trouble getting a grasp on things searching on-line etc. I got Scott Barker's book and it's simply excellent. Going thru the first 6 chapters, and doing the examples has given me the foundation to move forward. This is a beginning book, but it covers all the things to get you productive. Thank you Scott.

Excellent book to get you start with infopath!

This book guide you through infopath step by step. Very very helpful for beginers!

Beginning InfoPath 2003

Wow! I am elated. This is great self help book. Mr. Barker, the author did an excellent job. His methodology is awesome. I was able to teach myself. By the Way, I had to learn this application in one week and I am happy to report I now know the basics after a few hours, I am up to chapter nine. Also, the forum is great for answers at [...].

The best, and first InfoPath book to buy...

If you are new to InfoPath, do yourself a favor and get this book first. In fairness to prior books, writing a book on InfoPath really was not an easy or pleasant task before Service Pack 1 came along. Before SP1, InfoPath was a less useful product that required more effort to understand and use for real-world solutions. The book is well organized and follows a logical progression from basic to more complex subjects. The first 60% or so of the book covers the basic matter with the remainder devoted to more advanced and quite current topics such as using .NET managed code with InfoPath. Lastly there is a case study to illustrate the thought processes around using InfoPath in real-world solutions. If you need to get up-to-speed on InfoPath quickly, this book can be lightly read in no more than 2 days and used as a guide and reference from there. There are two aspects about the way this book is written that appealed to me. First, Scott Barker makes practical use of the "Try It Out" and "How it works" technique. Second, any prior bleeding-edge experience with InfoPath, especially pre-SP1, will make anyone purchasing this book totaly appreciate the expanded coverage of topics like security and deployment. InfoPath was designed to comply with standards/laws that address privacy like HIPPA, which make deployment "lots of fun". On the downside, there are a number of typos in the book, but my guess is that the editing done by Wrox was rushed and it's not due to the writing per se. Fortunately, the errors are pretty obvious.