Database and XML Web Service Front-End Tool
InfoPath is unusual in that it can create forms that can submit data to and query relational databases such as Microsoft Access and SQL Server 2000, but it can also submit data to and query certain classes of XML Web services.
ADO, Not ADO.NET
Microsoft is increasingly encouraging developers to make the transition from COM-based languages to the .NET Framework and associated languages such as C# and Visual Basic .NET. Perhaps surprisingly, InfoPath 2003 has no .NET functionality at all.
No Inline Schemas
You cannot use inline schemas in XML Web services that are to be processed by InfoPath 2003. A W3C XML Schema document, whether created by a developer or created automatically by InfoPath, must be present ...
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