Together with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Server 2007, InfoPath allows built-in integration with back-end processes, databases, and workflow, and provides developers with rich tools to build enterprise-wide forms solutions. During the stage of development and stabilization of InfoPath 2007, Philo worked with testfeatures product teams, providing feedback on the scenarios, and to develop and implement solutions for government and public sector. InfoPath 2007, coupled with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, adds the ability to deploy InfoPath forms in a web browser without client-side applications. SharePoint and Office 2007 have leveraged InfoPath in other ways - making InfoPath is part of the workflow engine embedded in SharePoint, and using InfoPath forms to capture and maintain arbitrary metadata in Office documents. Pro InfoPath 2007 was written so that developers can read it as an introduction to InfoPath 2007, and use it as a reference for common tasks. Targeted at developers, power users should also find much value in this book to learn how to design and use forms in InfoPath. This book will show how designers shape: Use InfoPath to fill out and publish electronic formsDesign formsConnect to a data source to read and publish viewsWork dataDesign and harness the power of InfoPath with SharePoint form libraries to get the most out of Word and InfoPath forms dataImport any form of Excel to InfoPathCreate workflow with SharePoint DesignerWork with digital signatures In addition, developers will learn how to: Create an InfoPath form template based on the data connection or web form servicePublish InfoPath template as a custom task pane typesCreate content for formsUnderstand SharePoint InfoPath management information policiesWrite Net code behind InfoPath forms and browser add-ons formsCreate. to extend the capabilities InfoPathCreate custom workflow for SharePoint, embedding InfoPath forms for gathering informationBuild Net web services. that InfoPath can connect toUse Altovas XMLSpy to work with InfoPath form templates