New to Infopath/development: How to get started

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rich - 28 Nov 2004 15:37 GMT

Hello,

I am new to development and to Infopath. To teach myself some of these
skills, I would like to develope a financial/stock market database
application. Version 1.0 will basically do a few of the following things:
1. Allow me to enter daily stock quotes (open & closing prices).
2. Allow me to enter various news items, press releases, etc. related to a
specific company. I most likely will cut & paste them into a text field.
3. Allow me to enter biographic info on corporate officers for a specific
company.
4. Allow me to enter financial statement info from balance sheets, income
statements, etc.

I have designed the database already.

My questions are:
1. How do I attach to the database? Can you point me to code samples?
2. What kinds of things do I need to be concerned with developing basic
applications?
3. Can I use InfoPath to directly download stock quotes direct from MSN?

Thanks in advance,
Rich

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Michelle - 30 Nov 2004 18:19 GMT

(1) this depends on your needs. when you add a secondary datasource you can
choose to connect to an SQL Server db or an Access db. The wizard will guide
you through. Alternatively you can write web services to abstract your db
and you would then interface with the web service. Again the datasource
wizard will guide you. Go to Tools>Data Connections then click on the Add
button.

(2) This question is a little broad! Narrow it down some - or ask specific
questions when you encounter problems.

(3) If MSN provides a web service for you to interact with to get stock
quotes then absolutely. I don't work for MSN though so can't tell you what
options you have in obtaining stock quote info from them.

> Hello,
>
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> Thanks in advance,
> Rich

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