Technology Upgrade on Final Approach to Completion
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| Vladimir Orlov’s Data |
Direct your eyes above and see the screen shot of the data of next poetry presentation to appear at kintespace.com—you are looking at the first InfoPath form used to support Songhay System webs. So, I am building the form, writing/debugging the Web service to which this form submits and writing/debugging the data transformation assembly that writes the data captured by the Web service to disk. I still want kintespace.com to run on static web pages, making it completely Web server-less—as free and flexible as possible. The price for this freedom is high. I’m paying for it but I intend to be compensated.
For those InfoPath mavens that notice drop down list boxes in the picture above may ask, “Are you populating the lists from the Web Service?” Answer: no. I tried that at first and decided that the annoying security messages that pop up when InfoPath reaches out of its “sandbox” are not worth the price of convenience.
The lists are populated by static resource files—generated by hand from SQL XML queries and cutting and pasting—real primitive stuff folks but I refuse to write VSTO code for InfoPath to avoid security messages. I am convinced that somebody@microsoft.com will improve upon the Office Security model, rendering my code obsolete overnight. Office is in serious flux and my time is limited.