Brian Jones: Office Solutions

In the Intro to Word XML Part 3 , I showed how you could add your own XML to a Word document. I also briefly touched on how you could take advantage of the XML to make programming against the document a lot easier. Let's now briefly explore data validation...

Interested in knowing all the intricate details of the PDF output functionality coming in Office "12"? Cyndy Wessling has been working directly on the PDF support and has spent the past year driving that functionality into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access...

I haven't seen much mention of this yet so I wanted to call it out in case folks weren't aware yet. For Office "12", all of the XML functionality will be enabled in all SKUs. In Office 2003, the XML file formats were enabled in all versions, but the support...

I've had a few folks ask me about other industry standard schemas out there like HR-XML, XBRL, DocBook, etc. The out of the box schemas that are supported are WordprocessingML, SpreadsheetML, and PresenatationML. As I've discussed numerous times though...

There is a new article that will be in the June MSDN magazine that shows how to work with a Word document's properties programmatically. The author, Ken Getz has actually been working on building a collection of code snippets that people can use to do...

Doug Mahugh has another post on programmatically generating a basic Office Open XML file. This latest post shows how to create a simple SpreadsheetML file : This post covers the code for a CreateXlsx program that creates a simple Open XML spreadsheet...

There are a number of great sources of information on the new Office Open XML formats out there. I like to think that this blog is one of those sources, but there is also the OpenXMLDeveloper.org community, and the Ecma TC45 site . Another great source...

Hard to believe it's only been a year since I first started blogging... so much has happened. It's really great that we went out so early with the news of the file format change, we started talking about it an entire year before we shipped a public beta...

Oliver Bell just informed me that South Korea has decided to vote for approval of DIS 29500 (Open XML) as an ISO standard. This is a change from their original "no with comments" posisiton they took back in September, and is great news. South Korea was...

If you want to get an idea of how the add-in works, Pablo has posted a short video: Pablo suggested skipping to about 4:40 into the video to see the actual solution. For more information on the add-in, check out the blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/exscientia...

Interesting post from Miguel today: http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2008/Mar-26.html I have been reading the OOXML storm in a teacup for more than a year now. Am looking forward to the approval of OOXML as an ISO standard and to be able to move the...

Just saw this on Pablo's blog : Covering yet another set of scientific disciplines, last month the folks from ArXiv (the largest repository for Physics, also very popular for Math and Computer Science papers) posted the news that they now accept OpenXML...

Via Stephen McGibbon: http://notes2self.net/archive/2008/03/24/durusau-quot-opendocument-among-others-will-lose-if-openxml-loses-quot.aspx " Patrick Durusau has posted another thoughtful contribution to the document formats standardisation debate"...

We're just a couple of weeks away before the start of the SharePoint Conference (SPC) being held in Las Vegas. I want to give you guys a heads up that I will be at the conference from Oct 19-22. I'm pretty excited because I will be giving two different...

In my introduction post on the Open XML SDK I mentioned that the SDK is built on top of System.IO.Packaging . System.IO.Packaging is a set of APIs that are part of .NET 3.0, which allow developers to create and manipulate documents based on the Open Package...

We're going to have a few posts this week up on the Office Next blog that drill into the new app model from three perspectives: the end user; the developer; and the administrator. This first post that goes into the end user experience is now live: http...

Vivek announced a contest we're kicking off for people who are building apps for Office or SharePoint. Here's a link to the post: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/officeapps/archive/2012/08/07/game-on-win-big-prizes-in-the-app-contest.aspx The short of it though...

On Monday, I posted on the Office Next blog about the experience from an end user perspective around apps for Office and SharePoint . Yesterday, I posted about it from the developer point of view . Tomorrow, I'll post from the IT/administrator point of...

I am probably starting to sound like a broken record, but I am really excited about the different types of solutions that are possible when combining the Open XML SDK with Office Services. In the past, I showed you how to leverage the Open XML SDK to...

For those folks who have custom Office solutions within their enterprise, one area that you often need to focus on during the upgrade cycle is testing out those custom solutions to make sure they'll run in the latest version. With Office 14, we're going...

I just posted on the apps for Office blog, giving some more background into the new model: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/officeapps/archive/2012/07/23/introducing-apps-for-the-new-office-and-sharepoint.aspx