Learn how to use common design patterns to build innovative, XML-based enterprise solutions faster - with guidance from two veterans of the Microsoft InfoPath development team. A new program in the Microsoft Office System, InfoPath offers a rich development environment for creating a dynamic, easy-to-use, forms-based front end for business process and workflow solutions. The authors walk you through a three-tiered solution featuring InfoPath as the client, Web services and Microsoft BizTalk in the middle tier, and Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange Server, or line-of-business applications on the back end.
You'll learn best practices for using the most common design and deployment patterns to expedite your development efforts. And you'll see InfoPath in action through a series of vertical industry case-study examples.
