Brian Jones: Office Solutions

I had a few people point me at a couple of IBM blogs today (Bob Sutor and Rob Weir) and I have to admit I was a little disappointed to see that they are really working hard to continue to push negative views of the Office Open XML formats. Basically they...

Last week we held the 5 th face-to-face meeting of Ecma TC45, and this time it was hosted by Microsoft. It was nice being able to stay out here in Redmond for once <g/>. At the meeting, we all agreed to make working draft 1.4 publicly available...

Last week we held the Ecma TC45 face-to-face meetings out here in Redmond. It was a really productive week, and there should be a summary of the meetings posted to the Ecma site soon (in addition to an updated working draft of the spec). I'll blog more...

This question has come up a few times, most recently over on the OpenXMLDeveloper site ( http://openxmldeveloper.org/forums/477/ShowThread.aspx#477 ) The challenge a lot of folks have is that they want to generate a WordprocessingML document using...

This is the fifth post by Zeyad Rajabi who owns the XHTML output from Word's new blogging feature . In earlier posts, Zeyad discussed a general overview of the XHTML , details on XHML compliance , how we map styles to semantics , and bullets and numbering...

I still get folks asking me questions about the licensing of the Open XML formats from time to time, and it seems there is a lot of misinformation out there. It's actually been well over 7 months since we made the move away from licensing the formats...

Well, it was all the way back in March when we had the Office Developer's conference out here in Redmond. It was a lot of fun, as we actually had a track dedicated to the Open XML formats. There were three separate presentations and we were able to get...

I've been planning to start pulling together some real world examples around the ways in which people are using the Office Open XML formats to make document generation much easier. There are a lot of examples from Office 2003, and we're starting to see...

There is a new article up on the OpenXMLDeveloper.org site showing how to build a basic PresentationML file from text entered into a control. It lets you create numerous slides and specify the title and body for each slide. Check it out: http://openxmldeveloper...

There are now a handful of code snippets from Wouter available over on the openxmldeveloper.org site that you should check out. He's been pulling these together over the past couple weeks, and they are really looking good. Here's what he has up there...

Here's a post from Eric White where he provides some code samples for using XLinq to parse a WordprocessingML document: http://blogs.msdn.com/ericwhite/archive/2006/08/01/685535.aspx Here's the description of what Eric was trying to accomplish: ...

There are quite a few online labs for Office, but I thought I'd point out this one in particular: Programmatic Manipulation of the Microsoft Office Open XML Formats Virtual Lab I have to admit that I haven't tried this one out myself yet, so I'll be...