Designing Forms for Microsoft Office InfoPath and Forms Services 2007 (Repost)

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