Brian Jones: Office Solutions

Kevin Boske has another post on using the System.IO.Packaging assembly to work with the new Office Open XML formats. He shows how you can quickly open the package and navigate the relationships to find a specific part, then remove that part. http://blogs...

Here's a question I got from someone wanting to store alternative formats in the files: Want to know if alternative formats can also be stored in the same office XML zip format. E.g., Is it possible that the XML file format also stores the 2003...

I've had a number of folks ask me questions about VSTO integration both with Office 2003 as well as with the upcoming Office 2007. There are a number of people on the VSTO team blogging, so I figured it would be worthwhile linking to them here: ...

This is a bit off topic, but when I received this question I realized that we don't have the answer available anywhere so I wanted to post it just in case other folks were interested. Here is the question: Please forgive this random email, but I...

Two weeks ago we had the second face to face meeting for Ecma TC-45 . For those of you unfamiliar with it, TC-45 was created with the charter of standardizing the Office Open XML formats . Well the other week Apple hosted the group's second meeting down...

Today we are announcing the details behind the upcoming 2007 Microsoft Office system products. We had previously been referring to it as Office "12", but we now have an official name and there is a ton of other information now available about the packaging...

I've been really backed up on email, so I'm sorry for those of you who've sent me questions directly and still haven't heard back. I'm working to catch up on all of them. There are a number of great questions, and I figured that I should post some of...

As you all know, the new Office formats use ZIP containers to wrap up all the XML parts that make up a document. We chose to use ZIP and XML because of the wide spread use and openness. While you can use any ZIP library to crack open the files, we are...

Now that folks have had a chance to work with Beta 1 for a few months, I wanted to take some time to give a high level overview of the three different document formats. Today I'm going to focus on Word. Obviously there is a huge set of features and functionality...