Molte cose.
Sulla base dei feedback ricevuti Infopath sarà molto migliorato, qui sotto riporto un elenco delle migliorie così come le ho ricevute da uno dei colleghi che stanno lavorando sul prodotto:
Se siete interessati potete scaricare la beta del Sp-1 di Infopath qui:
http://office.microsoft.com/officeupdate/category.aspx?CategoryID=CD011153201033&CTT=4&Origin=CD010224941033
Security enhancements
- Increased support for digital signatures. The preview gives form designers the ability to provide verifiable, nonrepudiable signing, partial signing, cosigning and countersigning through enhanced digital signature support. Thus, InfoPath users can not only sign different portions of a form and see a view of the form as it existed when a user digitally signed it, but they also can store additional information when a form is digitally signed to verify the intention of the signer and to provide additional information about the form.
Reliability enhancements
- Enhanced document recovery, data submission and filtering controls. To aid customers in the capture and sharing of data, the preview includes expanded controls that enable the form designer to specify the interval after which documents will be automatically saved and whether a document can be saved in offline mode. It also allows designers to provide built-in filtering tools to end users so they can easily parse through aggregated information at will to find the specific details they need.
- Technical updates. Drawing on technical data gathered through Microsoft's Customer Connection Tools -- such as Microsoft Error Reporting, Microsoft Update, Office Online and the Customer Experience Improvement Program -- Microsoft continues to make enhancements that make the newly launched Microsoft Office System the most stable, reliable and secure version of Office Microsoft has ever produced.
Enhancements to the end user's experience
- Additional handwriting support for Tablet PC users. New with the preview, users can handwrite straight onto an InfoPath field and have their Tablet PC ink be automatically recognized and transformed into typed text.
- Improved ability to handle InfoPath attachments in e-mail. End users can now open and interact with InfoPath forms that are sent to them as attachments.
Enhancements to the programming environment for developers
- Richer page layout controls for working with printed forms. Microsoft continues to improve upon the InfoPath "what you see is what you get" (WYSIWYG) design environment, which includes layout control features that enable designers to create forms quickly and easily. When designing a form that will be printed, for example, form designers will be able to insert page breaks for print versions of forms without affecting the layout for users filling out the InfoPath form online.
- Easier integration into existing business process and workflows. With enhancements to InfoPath's condition builder feature and built-in support for the human workflow service (HWS) in Microsoft BizTalk® Server 2004, form designers can now change the options available to the user based on the user's role, making it even easier to integrate InfoPath forms into existing business processes and workflows.
- Additional tools for developers using managed code. In addition to enabling developers to customize their InfoPath solutions through script they create, developers using Microsoft Visual Basic® .NET 2003 and Visual C#® will now be able to move seamlessly between InfoPath and Visual Studio®, enabling them to create, debug and build InfoPath solutions using managed code.
- Extensibility and enhanced support for handling XML schemas. The preview delivers expanded tools for working with ActiveX® controls and complex Extensible Markup Language (XML) schemas, enabling form designers to swap out one XML schema definition language (XSD) data source for another or add additional data sources, including ADO.NET data sets and Windows® SharePoint (TM) Services lists. Schemas used in an InfoPath form can grow as the organization's needs change or be adapted to be used in other solutions, such as for customized applications a solution provider might create for its customers.