How To Programmatically Modify an InfoPath Form Template

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The folks behind the InfoPath team blog have posted a short series on how to programmatically modify InfoPath form templates. The example in the series shows how to change the URL of a XML Web Service end point used by the InfoPath form using a script instead of having to do it manually by launching InfoPath. The posts in the series are linked below

  1. Modifying InfoPath manifest.xsf file from script (1/5)
  2. Modifying InfoPath manifest.xsf file from script (2/5)
  3. Modifying InfoPath manifest.xsf file from script (3/5)
  4. Modifying InfoPath manifest.xsf file from script (4/5)
  5. Modifying InfoPath manifest.xsf file from script (5/5) 

The posts highlight that the InfoPath XSN format is really a CAB file, and the files that make up the template are XML files which can easily be modified programmatically.