Contents tagged with Knowledge and Collaboration
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You have to love the new world of collaboration
Tonight I jumped on IM and sent a message of congratulations to Roy about his MVP award (apparently he got it 4 months ago... news to me!).
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Webcast - How InfoPath supports ADO.NET DataSet's
I just finished watching a WebCast about support for ADO.NET DataSet's in InfoPath:
Hagen Green - MSDN Webcast: Database Connectivity in InfoPath Through ADO.NET -
InfoPath book
Ordered myself some reading material for those long flights between Canberra and Adelaide today:
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InfoPath NEWBIE mistake #1
OK, so I've made my first major InfoPath blunder. Being a javascript afficionado I decided that I'd create my InfoPath forms using javascript as the codebehind model as opposed to using the new, .NET model which comes with the Infopath 2003 Toolkit for Visual Studio.Net.
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New tool for assisting with access namespaced xml elements
Using InfoPath lately has really made me sharpen up my knowledge of working with Xml such as querying it with XPath. Prior to the last week or so, all of the Xml that I've queried has been non-namespaced. Adding namespaces to Xml documents and nodes means that you need to set some attributes on the underlying namespace manager of the XmlDocument when you need to query it using XPath. In C# this would look similar to this:
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The benefits of fully trusted InfoPath forms
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Finally building real things with InfoPath
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Tips for effective communication
Communication is a really inefficient activity and that's because it takes a lot of effort to do it well. This can also be exacerbated when in an environment with mixed cultures where participants may find the "listening" part of communicating a greater burden. Additionally, there are environmental modifiers that can affect the likelihood of having good communication such as: noisy environment, people who are tired or irritated, unsuitable venue, unsuitable timing, etc. Here's some tips that I have for increasing the likelihood of having a successful session of communication&
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Creating knowledge from information
Over the next few months I intend to do some intensive blog'ging on the topic of using tools such as InfoPath, Office 2003, Sharepoint and the Information Bridge Framework and how you can wire them together to create smart applications which add value to existing information systems.