InfoPath + Amazon Web Service = wtf!?

Wednesday, February 9, 2005

UPDATE: The InfoPath team have affirmed that this is a bug and provided a general and specific work-around. Read about it here.

Wow. I'm getting into InfoPath these days and wanted to use the Amazon E-Commerce Service 4.0 to retreive some data. I've tried and reproduced this on two machines so far:

Open InfoPath
Design a form > New blank form
Tools > Data Connections > Add
Receive Data > Web Service > Paste URI http://webservices.amazon.com/AWSECommerceService/AWSECommerceService.wsdl
Select an operation > ItemLookup > Next > CRASH!

Who's to blame? InfoPath or the Amazon WebService. Well, FrontPage consumes the service without violently terminating without giving any errormessages. Anyone else able to reproduce?

3 Comments

Who is to blame?

Easy: InfoPath.

A Web-Servie is text. There is no excuse for this CRASHING an application. Even if you get rubbish out of the web-service, a normal error-message should be all that happens.

Thomas Tomiczek - Wednesday, February 9, 2005 4:21:00 PM

Yeah, I can reproduce this to the letter and I cannot find a reason for it.

Bad MS!

John Cartin - Wednesday, February 9, 2005 6:24:00 PM

I can also reproduce this. I have a fresh install (2 days old and patched with everything available via office update at that same time).

Gotta be some infopath bug. Don't have any idea why it would necessitate crashing.

Dave Kingston - Wednesday, February 9, 2005 8:13:00 PM

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