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Tuesday, December 09, 2008 12:53 AM

Generating documents with C#, Open XML and the Document Reflector

I’ve been playing around with the Document Reflector in the Open XML SDK v2 CTP lately and I have to say, it is fantastic. You can take a document with fancy formatting, styles, pictures etc and turn it into a C# class that will generate said document.
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Friday, March 28, 2008 2:41 AM

Joel on Standards

Well this war of words on document standards is almost over (Yay!). With all this scrutiny of OpenXML, I wonder what sort of scrutiny will be placed on ODF in the future. But anyway, lets take a look at the issues of standards (meta-standards?). Why are
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Sunday, March 09, 2008 11:09 PM

An OpenXML reader written in Silverlight?

Yes. Intergen Textglow ... from those crazy guys across the Tasman in New Zealand. (FYI - this requires Silverlight 2.0 beta - so if you are still running the old 1.1 alpha (like I was), Dude, Upgrade! )
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008 11:08 AM

Lotus Symphony to support Open XML?

Apparently IBM talked about this at their conference. CNET has the scoop - although technology journalism is about as reliable as technology blogs property lawyers. IBM favors ODF as a file format because it is “truly open” and technically
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Monday, January 14, 2008 1:06 PM

There is no end, but addition

Interesting post on Alex Brown's blog (who is the Convener of the OpenXML Ballot Resolution Meeting). There's been some talk in Kyoto of the benefits for all of uniting behind one existing ISO standard for office documents, rather than its confusingly-similarly-named
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Monday, January 14, 2008 12:47 PM

Al on Linux

That last post, was pretty lame, so I'll try to answer some more interesting questions this time. Obviously, the opinions expressed here are my own and in no way represent the official point-of-view of Microsoft or any other organisation blah blah blah.
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Monday, January 14, 2008 11:30 AM

A late Darwin Award entrant?

So, today I was asked by our Open XML guru to attend the next Sydney Linux User Group . I'll be there to answer questions on Open XML and Office. Anyway, like a good minion , I did some research to see how much trouble I will be in. All in all, not as
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007 11:54 AM

the online Open XML debate - *yawn*

I've tried to stay well away from this whole Open XML flamewar... regardless of the outcome I think the quality of the debate is degrading to the IT profession... ..but I can't resist this. A front page item on noooxml.org: Sure, they will write something.
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Sunday, November 04, 2007 9:53 AM

Office Devcon 2007 has left the building

  Well, the Office Dev Con 2007 has drawn to a close after 2 full days and 100 pizzas. I was impressed at the turnout, considering it was a miserable weekend (stormy one day, scorching the next - the weather in Sydney is about as stable as the lane
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007 2:04 AM

Some cool Office 2007 Deployment and Development links

I try to stay away from posting random streams of links to other peoples hard earned content. That being said, here is four articles Deployment Business Desktop Deployment Resources is a pretty extensive site from the UK with all the resources, webcasts
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007 1:29 PM

SharePoint and Office versions... huh?

I hear a lot of questions about which applications are included in which versions of Office. So, rather than rehash what is elsewhere, I'll point you to the Microsoft Office 2007 Suites page on Office Online. Each suite has a different set of products
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Tuesday, August 07, 2007 1:18 AM

Office Business Applications

A question came up today "Al, what ever happened to all that interesting (and complicated) Information Bridge Framework stuff?" . Like any good Office TSP, I knew the answer :) Office Business Applications (apart from having a much more descriptive name)
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Friday, August 03, 2007 12:13 AM

Feel I'm goin' back to Massachusetts,

(Apologies to the BeeGees) Yesterday, Massachusetts approved OpenXML on it's list of approved document standards. In my mind, OpenXML is a great choice for government departments, because of the compatibility packs for everything back to Office 2000,
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