It appears my customer and I are on the cutting edge of InfoPath development with Form Services. We are CONSTANTLY running into issues and bugs. I try my best to post what we find to help anyone else running through the same issues. This issue is a doosy.   Our scenario is this: We have 3 server farms setup, one for development, one for staging and testing and one for production. We are creating InfoPath forms in Visual Studio 2008 and each have loads of codebehind (handling loading,... [More]

I wrote a web service that queries the users in certain groups and I bound a dropdown in my InfoPath form to it. The web service requires two values, the site name and the group name. In using the InfoPath Data Connection wizard I specified the values. We now are looking to move this form to another server (from dev to staging to prod) and this form is going to become the base for about a dozen other forms, so changing this value manually every time will become a hassel at best. I figured out... [More]

So this is quite the interesting issue. Apparently InfoPath HATES data sources that are not being used. If you have a data source that's not assigned to anything, say a dropdown list or something, then the form doesn't like life. For example, I had a data source that was in my IP form which was the lookup for a dropdown but then I replaced it with another lookup list. Now this data source is doing nothing, just hanging out, unassigned and alone. The data source gets moody, frustrated and then do... [More]