Last week B&R Business Solutions won a contract for a SharePoint and FBA installation and that got me on the kick of FBA again. Last weekend I built some code to retrieve the username for a FBA user and during that process I ended up wanting to debug my browser based InfoPath 2007 form. This was going to be the first time for me to try this because in the past I've always made my forms code free because I never wanted any of my clients to maintain code for InfoPath 2007 form if it could all be built in Visual Studio Web Service or Class project. My thought was it should be extremely easy to do because I had a Visual Studio 2008 VSTO InfoPath 2007 project and the form was web based. I was hoping debugging was going to be as easy as SharePoint debugging is and believe it or not it was. To debug my web based form all I had to do was attach the w3wp.exe process where my InfoPath 2007 web based form was running under to my Visual Studio 2008 VSTO InfoPath 2007 project and set my break point in the code. I was really surprised it was this easy to do because I was guessing that there had to be something funky to make it work but I was totally wrong.

Since I'm doing this extra SharePoint/FBA project with Nas, I only suspect that I will do more things with InfoPath and FBA. Most likely I will end up building a new .NET Class for retrieving FBA user information based off user id for pre-populating web based InfoPath 2007 forms.

Well it's time for me to get some sleep because I've a lot of things to do tomorrow. I hope everybody has a great weekend.

Cheers,
Michael