In case you’re not as fortunate as me and you haven’t had the privilege of experimenting with SharePoint 2010 and the new Form Templates available in InfoPath Designer 2010, here are some cool things you can do without code!

1. Create a custom branded User Profile Lookup Form to talk to the UserProfileService.asmx web service. Pull in data such as Preferred Name, E-mail address, Profile Picture, Department, Manager, etc. Put this in an InfoPath Form Web Part and give the user a nice UI for querying your Active Directory.
2. Create a custom Site Provisioning Form to talk to the Sites.asmx web service. Wrap an approval workflow around it so that when the manager approves the site request it gets auto-provisioned. The user doesn’t need permission to create sites because you can run it with elevated privileges. The manager doesn’t need to manually create the site for the user after approving it; everyone wins!

These are just two of the cool things you can do with SharePoint 2010 and InfoPath 2010.