Exploring the Compound File Binary Format (part deux) In this, part ni (pronounced ne; Japanese for deux), I pick up where we left off. Where were we? I had just demonstrated that the IStorage::CopyTo() method, at least Microsoft’s default implementation...

An ActiveSync Primer Dominic Salemno What is ActiveSync? When I speak of ActiveSync, I am speaking in regards to the protocol itself, not the application. In any communications protocol, there is always a purpose for the transmission. In the...

Introduction In order to be concise with this article, I need to assume that the reader is familiar with Kerberos and Active Directory. If not, then I can quickly think of two scenarios: 1) Your favorite search engine ( Bing in my case) took...

In this blog I’d like to cover every aspect of parsing Office binary documents, and do it in less than a thousand words. But, what follows is more realistic, thus more narrow in focus. Specifically, I’ll examine the PowerPoint binary format from the point...