Greatest Hits: The best of BSO

A list of blog posts and articles, which have received the most hits on BizSupportOnline.NET.

InfoPath blog posts

5 Ways to submit an InfoPath form to a SharePoint list

Learn which workarounds are available if you want to submit the data from an InfoPath form to a SharePoint list.

InfoPath form uploaded to SharePoint seems to remain stuck in the ‘Installing’ or ‘Upgrading’ status

Learn how you can use the stsadm command line utility to run the administrative timer jobs for InfoPath forms that get stuck during an administrator-approved deployment.

“Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: The security validation for this page is invalid.” error in InfoPath browser forms

Learn how you can use the SPWeb.AllowUnsafeUpdates property to prevent the ‘The security validation for this page is invalid.’ error from taking place when you run code that calls directly into the SharePoint object model from within an InfoPath browser form.

Step-by-step instructions for setting up InfoPath Forms Services using Office Forms Server 2007 and WSS 3.0

Learn what steps are required before you can use InfoPath with Forms Server 2007 and WSS 3.0 to create and deploy forms that can be filled out through a browser.

Submit repeating table rows from InfoPath to a SharePoint list using the SharePoint Object Model

Learn how you can combine two InfoPath solutions to be able to submit rows of a repeating table in an InfoPath form to a SharePoint list using the SharePoint Object Model (OM).

InfoPath articles

4 Ways to programmatically add a row to a repeating table in InfoPath

Learn how to take advantage of the 4 overloads of the AppendChild method to programmatically add rows to repeating tables in InfoPath.

How to get data from a MySQL database into InfoPath using a Web Service

This article shows you how to use a Microsoft .NET Web Service to retrieve data from a MySQL database and display the data in an InfoPath form.

How to get HTML tags to appear as HTML and not as plain text in a Rich Text Box

Learn how to write code to render HTML in a Rich Text Box.

How to use the SharePoint object model to submit data from an InfoPath browser form to a SharePoint list

This article explains how you can use the SPContext, SPSite, SPWeb, SPList, and SPListItem classes in C# or Visual Basic code in an InfoPath form to submit the form’s data as a new item to a custom SharePoint list.

Programmatically add items to a drop-down list box in InfoPath 2007

Bind the drop-down list box to a repeating node in either the Main or a secondary data source, and then loop through rows of data in another data source to populate the data source that is bound to the drop-down list box.

Other

InfoPath Tutorials: SharePoint – InfoPath Integration

Learn how to combine SharePoint and InfoPath to create forms solutions for both InfoPath clients and web browsers.

Working with InfoPath