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How to deloy InfoPath 2010 "Administrator-approved form template" to SharePoint 2010 programaticaly

Scenario: you've developed and InfoPath 2010 form. This form contains code that requires full trust, so you need to deploy it as a administrator-approved form template. This requires an farm administrator to check, upload and activate the form for the site collection. Solution:  to automate this operation I  created a farm level feature - w hen the feature is activated upload the form  programmatically and w hen the feature is deactivated remove the form  programmatically. Here is how I did it: 1. Create an Empty SharePoint Project and set it to be deployed as a farm solution 2. Add an Empty element item - EmptyElement1 . This will also generate a feature - Feature1 3. Delete the Elements.xml file of the EmptyElement1 4. Copy/Paste the InfoPath 2010 form into the EmptyElement1 5. Right click on the added form and click Properties:  - Deployment Type: ElementFile  - Deployment Location> Path: set it to blank 6. Open the generated feature, Feature1 7. Set the scope