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Document Toolkit v1 available
04 May 09 08:12 PM
First Floor have released version 1.0 of their document toolkit for client-side display of XPS using Silverlight. Details in this blog post . The documentation is also available online, including details of conformance with the spec, note that TIFF and Read More...
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SimonSays How to Display XPS in Silverlight
27 April 09 05:57 PM
Another XPS in Silverlight link. This one is from Simon Guest with details on how he updated David Anson’s sample to work around changes in Silverlight 2. Source code available. Read More...
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XPS to OneNote
27 April 09 05:46 PM
David Rasmussen on using XPS to print to OneNote. There’s also a codeplex project . Read More...
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Windows 7 Beta SDK
15 January 09 02:46 PM
Here’s the link to the Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1: BETA download. Read More...
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Windows 7 Beta MSDN Library Content Available
13 January 09 05:59 AM
The content team has published Windows 7 SDK documentation for some of the Win32 APIs in the Windows 7 beta. Of particular interest: Packaging XPS Documents XPS Digital Signatures Direct2D DirectWrite Although I’m off to try out the sensor API … Enjo Read More...
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MSDN Code Gallery for XPS
12 January 09 06:21 PM
The code gallery for the XPS APIs in Windows 7 is now live on MSDN . The gallery has three code samples for using the new APIs: Basics of working with XPS Documents: loading, modifying and saving. Rollup: combing content from different documents. Flow Read More...
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New XPS Features in Windows 7
04 November 08 01:29 AM
We’ve been busy. Last week at PDC we unveiled Windows 7 and provided developers with a first look at the bits. This week at WinHEC we’re providing further details about Windows 7 for the hardware community. The big Windows 7 news for XPS is that we’ve Read More...
WPF <> XPS
30 July 08 10:55 PM
A favorite question I get asked is “When will [insert some application name] be ported to WPF?” WPF is a fantastic technology and there’s lots of interesting stuff happening on top of the WPF platform, but I’m wondering why people are asking me about Read More...
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Data-binding XPS with WPF
13 July 08 04:56 PM
Mark Nijhof on using WPF data binding to create XPS documents from templates. Read More...
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Windows SDK
08 February 08 05:42 PM
The Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008, .Net Framework 3.5 and Windows Vista SP1, with support for Visual Studio 2005 & 2008) has RTM'd. More details on the Windows SDK blog . Read More...
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Generating XPS Automagically
02 February 08 12:16 AM
I got a mail overnight asking about ways to automatically generate XPS from applications, specifically asking for a way to enable existing applications that don't have knowledge of XPS to generate XPS content. The Microsoft XPS Document Writer (MXDW) Read More...
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Printing Is Easier with Easy Print
31 January 08 06:40 PM
Printing hasn't always been the easiest thing to configure and manage in Terminal Services. As Greg Shields puts it "printing and printer drivers have long been the bane of Terminal Services administrators. The pain of keeping the right drivers on Read More...
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Configuring Compression in XPS Drivers
27 January 08 05:36 AM
This is an update on controlling compression options in a driver . In Windows Vista SP1 we've added the capability for drivers to control image compression. For drivers based in PScript5UI.dll or UnidrvUI.dll see the documentation on the IPrintOEMUIMXDC Read More...
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Where is isXPS?
22 January 08 07:10 PM
MSDN provides details of isXPS, a tool that tests conformance of files with XPS and OPC. You can find details of isXPS on MSDN , but where is the tool itself? isXPS is included as part of the Windows SDK . Once installed you'll find it at: <Program Read More...
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