This is why I love blogging

I love the fact that I can use my blog to share ideas, vet my reasoning, and most importantly, to gather feedback. Case in point: I shared my Infopath / .Text integration work late last night, wondering if anyone else had done similar work, which is often the case.

 

Bingo.

 

A reader posted a link to Guoqiang Wu's blog, where he's posted a full-featured Infopath SP1 form solution that is incredibly powerful. In addition to letting you author and post new entries, it also let's you view and edit existing entries, attach categories, and cache your blog credentials in the form. He uses VS.NET integration to overcome the Infopath limitations I ran into while developing my form (e.g., there's no password text box, no way to directly map a rich text box (XHTML) to the content field (of type xsd:string) exposed by the WS, etc.).

 

My implementation relies on a very simple form. It doesn't require Infopath SP1 (like his does) and it isn't dependent on any external assemblies. I deal with the XHTML issue within my .ashx handler, which also uses the same ASMX Web service (SimpleBlogService) behind the scenes. Nevertheless, mine pales in comparison when it comes to functionality.

 

So to all of you who emailed me about my implementation, I suggest you check out this one first. It's very slick. If you still want to see mine, let me know.  ;-)