Finally I have installed SP1 and the toolkit of Infopath 2003.  I know, I'm maybe late, but I didn't have time before.

But first.  If you are using the first time Infopath, it may be interresting to check the MSDN site because there are some good articles on it, like the programming model.

OK, now a bit more about the SP1 and toolkit.  If you want to use the toolkit, you first have to install the SP1.  Although it isn't really a SP, but more a newer version of Infopath.  So I just run the exe, and I already got my first error message, which told me to uninstall the previous version first.

After uninstalling the first version, I installed without any problem SP1.  I also directly installed the toolkit.

Before running the toolkit, I just have to see what the changes are in SP1.  Well one of the changes you directly see, is the project screen

Another big advantage is, that Infopath SP1, now is a standalone application.  You don't need Office 2003 or the relase version of Infopath 2003.

A short list of other items I found out :

•  Improved schema support
•  Xpath improvement, like calculations without writing a script. So I can use formulas instead of my calcfunction I wrote before. 
•  Digital signatures
•  Improved ADO support
•  Printing improvements like page breaks

A total list of new/imrpved items can be found at the download page of the SP1.  Next, I re-opened my previous template.  Directly I got the question if I want to upgrade my template to the new schema possibilities.  If not, users don't have to upgrade their Infopath.  if you choose to upgrade, then all your users must also upgrade to Infopath 2003.

My next step is using Visual Studio 2003 to creat my Infopath forms.  I will start from zero with my holidaysheet.  More about this in my next post.