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InfoPath Security

Some scenarios using InfoPath forms involve saving data to the local machine and later submitting data to a target on the Internet or an internal network. Typically, that's done using the InfoPath menus. However, InfoPath also allows the programmatic control of saving to disk, which raises potential security issues. (To learn more about security issues in InfoPath 2003, see Chapter 12, “Security and InfoPath Forms.”)

A number of components of the InfoPath object model are designated as security level 3, meaning that the properties or methods can be used only in InfoPath form templates that are fully trusted. A fully trusted form template has to be installed explicitly by a user (or by an administrator on the user's behalf) before ...