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"Microsoft Office InfoPath represents a revolutionary leap in XML technologies and a new paradigm for gathering business-critical information. I am delighted that Scott Roberts and Hagen Green, two distinguished members of the InfoPath product team, decided to share their experience in this book."

--From the Foreword by Jean Paoli, cocreator of XML 1.0 and Microsoft Office InfoPath

Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 offers breakthrough tools for gathering, managing, and integrating business-critical information, and creating efficient forms-driven processes. Two longtime members of Microsoft's InfoPath product team have written the first comprehensive, hands-on guide to building successful XML-based solutions with InfoPath 2007.

The book opens with a practical primer on the fundamentals of InfoPath form template design for information workers and application developers at all levels of experience. It then moves into advanced techniques for customizing, integrating, and extending form templates--with all the code examples and detail needed by professional developers.

Learn how to:

• Design form templates: create blank form templates, insert and customize controls, use advanced formatting, and construct and lay out views
• Work with data: start with XML data or schema, manually edit data sources, and understand design-time visuals
• Add custom business logic to forms, and integrate them with other applications
• Retrieve and query data from external data sources, including XML files, databases, SharePoint lists, Web services, and ADO.NET DataSets
• Submit and receive form data using ADO.NET
• Save, preview, and publish to e-mail, SharePoint, and more
• Build reusable components with template parts
• Create workflows with SharePoint and InfoPath E-Mail Forms
• Administer Forms Services and Web-enabled form templates
• Build advanced form templates using C# form code, custom controls, add-ins, and the new InfoPath 2007 managed object model
• Design form templates using Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO)
• Update, secure, and optimize your form templates

List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword
Preface
About the Authors
PART I: Designing Forms
Chapter 1: Introduction to InfoPath 2007
Chapter 2: Basics of InfoPath Form Design
Chapter 3: Working with Data
Chapter 4: Advanced Controls and Customization
Chapter 5: Adding Logic without Code
Chapter 6: Retrieving Data from External Sources
Chapter 7: Extended Features of Data Connections
Chapter 8: Submitting Form Data
Chapter 9: Saving and Publishing
Chapter 10: Building Reusable Components
Chapter 11: Security and Deployment
Chapter 12: Creating Reports
Chapter 13: Workflow
Chapter 14: Introduction to Forms Services
Part II: Advanced Form Design
Chapter 15: Writing Code in InfoPath
Chapter 16: Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007
Chapter 17: Advanced Forms Services
Chapter 18: Hosting InfoPath
Chapter 19: Building Custom Controls Using ActiveX Technologies
Chapter 20: Add-ins
Chapter 21: Importers and Exporters
Appendix: Further Reading
Index

With the world's largest organizations rolling out tens of thousands of Windows® Phones, slates, laptops, tablets and netbooks to empower their respective mobile workforces, the ability to create mobile line of business solutions that support large numbers of users is absolutely critical. In his fourth book on mobile enterprise application platforms, Rob Tiffany shows you how to take the SQL Server data you use to run your organization and make it available to all of your mobile employees.
Step-by-step, he walks you through the process of building a secure, performant, n-tier mobile synchronization architecture designed to scale to thousands of users. You'll also learn how to create occasionally-connected .NET applications designed to thrive in unreliable wireless conditions. Take the guesswork out of mobilizing your organization by tapping into the experience of one of the world's foremost authorities on mobile and wireless infrastructure and development.
- Learn how to "Mobilize" your organization by making your enterprise data available to employees carrying Windows® phones, laptops, netbooks and tablets in the field.
- Learn how to build an N-Tier Mobile Merge Replication infrastructure that will scale to thousands of users.
- Learn how to create occasionally-connected .NET applications designed to thrive in unreliable wireless conditions.
- Learn best practices in security, reliability, performance, load-balancing, reverse proxy and hardware configuration from the author's years of replication experience.
- Learn how to implement this technology in real world scenarios like supply chain management, retail, sales force automation, healthcare and emergency management.

Microsoft's ASP.NET technology is a popular and enduring technology that can be expanded with custom server controls. Custom server controls allow programmers to add advanced features to their web sites by extending existing, well-known controls such as text boxes and buttons.

This book covers how to work with custom server controls and how to add AJAX functions into these applications with Microsoft's implementation of AJAX, ASP.NET AJAX (formerly Atlas). ASP.NET AJAX is the de facto standard for implementing Ajax in ASP.NET 2.0 applications, and every ASP.NET 2.0 developer has to bear it in mind when creating a cutting-edge application.

The intended reader is an experienced ASP.NET developer who wants to get the most out of server controls and add Ajax development to their suite of skills. No other book on server controls covers ASP.NET AJAX, so developers interested in this hot topic have to buy this book. Uniquely, it integrates client-side development technologies such as DHTML and JavaScript with server control technology, which is essential in a modern web application.

Practical .NET 2.0 Networking Projects demonstrates some of the key networking technologies that are being made easily accessible through .NET Framework 2.0. It discusses communication between wired machines and between networks and mobile devices. The book teaches you about the technologies by walking you through sample projects in a straightforward and direct way.

The book begins by discussing background theory so you'll get comfortable with the layout of the .NET Framework and Compact Framework from a networking perspective. Then you'll use the APIs within these frameworks to build a variety of cutting-edge networking applications that cover everything from Bluetooth and RFID communication to sockets programming and chat servers. You'll build working examples for each project, which you can also customize and use for your own purposes. The featured projects cover:

• Basic introduction to network programming in .NET 2.0
• Sockets programming
• Serial communication
• Bluetooth and GPS
• Infrared networking to mobile devices
• RFID

Table of Contents

1. Sockets Programming
2. Serial Communications
3. Incorporating Fingerprint Recognition into Your .NET Application
4. Infrared Programming
5. Fun with RFID
6. Interfacing with External Devices

This book offers a unified treatment of mobile middleware technology

Mobile Middleware: Architecture, Patterns and Practiceprovides a comprehensive overview of mobile middleware technology. The focus is on understanding the key design and architectural patterns, middleware layering, data presentation, specific technological solutions, and standardization. The author addresses current state of the art systems including Symbian, Java 2 Micro Edition, W3C technologies and many others, and features a chapter on widely deployed middleware systems. Additionally, the book includes a summary of relevant mobile middleware technologies, giving the reader an insight into middleware architecture design and well-known, useful design patterns. Several case studies are included in order to demonstrate how the presented patterns, solutions, and architectures are applied in practice. The case studies pertain to mobile service platforms, mobile XML processing, thin clients, rich clients, and mobile servers. Chapters on Architectures and Platforms, Mobile Messaging, Publish/Subscribe, Data Synchronization and Security are also included.

Key Features:

• Provides a comprehensive overview of mobile middleware technology
• Unified treatment of three core topical areas: messaging, publish/subscribe, and data synchronization
• Discusses the role of middleware in the protocol stack
• Focus on both standards and research systems including current state- of-the-art systems such as Symbian, Java 2 Micro Edition, W3C technologies
• Contains concrete examples showing the presented architectures and solutions in practice
• Includes an accompanying website with links to open source software, and other resources

This book serves as an invaluable guide to systems architects, researchers, and developers. It will also be of interest to graduate and undergraduate students studying computer science (distributed systems, computer networks).

Valuable lessons from Japan’s mobile industry yield 6 Immutable Laws for Mobile Business globally

Japan’s mobile customers enjoyed better mobile devices, more content, and the most advanced functionality and services for the last 10+ years. This book helps cut through the many myths and all of the hype surrounding Japan’s mobile dominance to identify the most important laws that will guide the success of mobile businesses around the world. Based on detailed market analysis and unprecedented access to the major players and pioneers of the Japanese mobile industry, this publication helps you understand the Six Immutable Laws of Mobile Business. These will help you and your business successfully navigate the challenges that the world’s Wireless Revolution brings. From Law #1 through Law #6, authors Philip Sugai, Marco Koeder, and Ludovico Ciferri will help guide you to distinguish mobile myth from mobile fact, micro developments from macro trends, and regional characteristics from universal truths.

The book highlights Japan’s incredible efforts to offer consumers complex, high-tech devices with enriched services that are nonetheless elegant and easy to use, a quest which the authors have labeled "Simplexity." Based on their interviews and observations, the authors assert that, "Simplexity will be what truly empowers individual users through their mobile devices.

Filled with case studies exploring all aspects of the Japanese mobile industry, this unique publication points carriers and content and service providers towards successful business models and practices for today’s and tomorrow’s mobile Internet.

This book is the beginning of the conversation of The Six Immutable Laws of Mobile Business, which is regularly being updated and expanded upon at:www.siximmutablelaws.com

Discover how to:

• Fine tune the ASP.NET runtime and control configuration settings
• Build custom providers to replace or enhance native components
• Develop rich applications with mobile controls, the site navigation API, GDI+, and other .NET Framework facilities
• Use asynchronous pages, dynamic expressions, and page parse filters to enable complex application functions
• Create custom Web Parts for personalized, portal-like Web sites
• Define ASP.NET templates and work with the Repeater and DataList iterative controls
• Develop and deploy user controls to partition and reuse common interface elements
• Design custom data-bound controls

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Designing the Obvious belongs in the toolbox of every person charged with the design and development of Web-based software, from the CEO to the programming team. Designing the Obvious explores the character traits of great Web applications and uses them as guiding principles of application design so the end result of every project instills customer satisfaction and loyalty. These principles include building only whats necessary, getting users up to speed quickly, preventing and handling errors, and designing for the activity. Designing the Obvious does not offer a one-size-fits-all development process--in fact, it lets you use whatever process you like. Instead, it offers practical advice about how to achieve the qualities of great Web-based applications and consistently and successfully reproduce them.
This latest edition updates examples to show the guiding principles of application design in action on today's web, plus adds new chapters on strategy and persuasion. It offers practical advice about how to achieve the qualities of great Web-based applications and consistently and successfully reproduce them.

Personal multimedia communication is the major growth area in engineering today with many people across the world in industry and academia working on the design of future generations of mobile radio systems and source coding methods. Before multimedia applications can be truly successful in mobile environments, many technologically demanding problems must be resolved. In order to provide the user with a suitable end-to-end service for multimedia applications, complex systems, interfaces and coding schemes need to be developed. In mobile multimedia, the air interface bandwidth requirements are likely to be dominated by the needs of one key service: video. Even with today's most aggressive compression algorithms, the needs of video exceed the bandwidth available with existing mobile connections. Although available bandwidth will increase, with the introduction of UMTS and local services based on wireless LANs (such as HiperLan), it is clear that advances in radio technology and air interface design must go hand in hand with innovations in source and channel coding.
The purpose of this book is to present an integrated view of advanced radio systems, network architectures and source coding that demonstrates the state-of-the-art as well as future directions in this rapidly developing field. The book acts as a repository of ideas, design examples, and advanced techniques for research staff, practicing engineers, and technical managers alike. Since the contributions are drawn from international experts in both academia and industry, the book should be attractive to both practicing professional engineers and researchers worldwide.
Key Features
* Written by internationa experts in academia and industry, Insights Into Mobile Multimedia Communications:
* presents an integrated view of advanced radio systems, network architectures and source coding
* describes the state-of-the-art as well as indicating future directions in this rapidly developing field
* acts as a repository of ideas, design examples and advanced techniques for research staff, practising engineers and technical managers
* is unique in integrating both communication systems and multimedia source coding aspects with emphasis on the problems of mobility

Taking a psychological perspective, this book examines the role of Human-Computer Interaction in the field of Information Systems research.
The introductory section of the book covers the basic tenets of the HCI discipline, including how it developed and an overview of the various academic disciplines that contribute to HCI research. The second part of the book focuses on the application of HCI to Information Systems research, and reviews ways in which HCI techniques, methodologies and other research components have been used to date in the IS field. The third section of the book looks at the research areas where HCI has not yet been fully exploited in relation to IS, such as broadening user groups and user acceptance of technology. The final section of the book comprises of a set of guidelines for students to follow when undertaking an HCI based research project.
* Offers a comprehensive insight into the social shaping of technology
* Includes in depth analysis of HCI issues relating to mobile devices
* Provides guidelines, technical tips and an overview of relevant data analysis techniques to help students develop their own research projects