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Ok, well after getting my custom site columns, lists, referenced list columns for the site columns and all that created. I now have the problem of actually accessing my data.  I need to read all the list items (including my new columns) into an application and into a windows service on different machines, therefore since they are not on the ...

of something new.... Microsoft have recently released Silverlight, a rather funky new Adobe Flash/Shockwave killer. I am particularly impressed with what I saw yesterday at Microsoft in Reading,UK.  What follows is a high level overview of what Silverlight is and is capable of.   What is it?Silverlight is a slimmed down ...

In my previous post I went by gut feel on timings, I have now been able to do some proper testing and timings using a demo form which are as follows....Times to change view via C# code : 175 Rows -IE : 29 secondsFF : 9 secondsIP Client : 1 second 50 RowsIE : 5 secondsFF : 1.5 secondsIP Client : < 1 secondThis problem only occurs when there ...

It's been a while since my last posting, but I haven't been lazing about, what with having our first baby and all!  She's gorgeous!  Her name is Kayleigh. Anyways, my most recent little thing is as follows.... We have our complex InfoPath form being hosted in MOSS and we have been going through system testing over the last couple of ...

I have recently started work on handling some of the events that can happen on a form library. One of these is the ItemDeleting event. This occurs during the delete process for an item. As the deletion of an object is part of a business process we had to copy the item to a Deleted library. This I did using properties.ListItem.File.CopyTo which ...

e.Site contains an XPathNavigator to the current node. It is worth noting that this is actually different to the xpath that e.Match refers to. It seems that if you have a repeating group in the xml and then the event is on a field within the repeating group; at this point in proceedings the value of e.Match is such that it contains the xpath to ...

Bodacious! I am very very happy, I have been struggling for ages with a rather spurious error - ''non-datatype error''. It turns out that it's due to having the xsi:nil parameter within my schema definition. So to be sure that you are always able to set the value of your field use the following code (as provided by the most wonderful Scott Heim ...

Now then, I have decided that the only way to solve the issue of repeated events and subsequent non-repeated events that I ended up with yesterday is to check the value of the field before continuing to execute the validating function such that if it is the same as the previous value, the validating code is not executed. This seemed fairly ...

Curious.... InfoPath validation events seem to trigger before the form has finished loading when you first try to access the form, which is kinda irritating as it slows down form load. The only way that I can think of getting around this is to change the XML schema so that there is a new field which gets set to hold the value ''true'' when the ...

1. When concatenating fields using rules you cannot put in newlines, you can only do this through code 2. You cannot have both code on a button click event and also have a ''close the form'' rule on the same button, this in IP client stops the code from executing; but in forms server it makes the web page get stuck and displays a msg saying ...