Brian Jones: Office Solutions

I'm Brian Jones, the group program manager of the Office Solutions Framework team.

On Monday, I posted on the Office Next blog about the experience from an end user perspective around...

Date: 08/09/2012

Vivek announced a contest we're kicking off for people who are building apps for Office or...

Date: 08/09/2012

We're going to have a few posts this week up on the Office Next blog that drill into the new app...

Date: 08/06/2012

There is new a CTP available of the Open XML SDK version 2.5:...

Date: 07/27/2012

I just posted on the apps for Office blog, giving some more background into the new model:...

Date: 07/23/2012

Test message... haven't used the blog in awhile, so want to make sure it still works! :-)

Date: 07/10/2012

In my last post, I showed you guys how to use the Open XML SDK to read and parse large Excel files....

Date: 06/22/2010

I want to thank you guys for leaving blog post requests. Today's post will focus on one of your...

Date: 05/27/2010

In a previous post, where I announced the release of the Open XML SDK 2.0, I promised to give you...

Date: 05/03/2010

This post will represent the most up-to-date blog map for topics on the Open XML SDK. Open XML SDK...

Date: 04/06/2010

Today, I am really excited to announce the worldwide availability of the Open XML SDK 2.0 for...

Date: 03/12/2010

I am probably starting to sound like a broken record, but I am really excited about the different...

Date: 02/26/2010

John Durant just announced a new interactive developer training tool, based on Silverlight, called...

Date: 02/16/2010

Have you ever wanted to update page number fields or a table of contents within Word documents on...

Date: 02/09/2010

Recently on Gray's blog he posted about a scanning tool that can be used to detect custom XML markup...

Date: 01/27/2010

Document assembly seems to be a hot topic these days especially when combined with the power of...

Date: 01/04/2010

I'm really happy to announce the 4th CTP for the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office! There were...

Date: 12/14/2009

Note: Updated post to point to a YouTube video that is shorter than 10 minutes In Brian's last blog...

Date: 12/03/2009

I just got back from PDC and am excited to share with you guys the presentation, deck, and code...

Date: 11/23/2009

I'm pretty excited, next week I'll be at PDC in Los Angeles giving another presentation on the Open...

Date: 11/10/2009

If you didn't see the news up on the Word team blog announcing Word Automation Services, and you...

Date: 11/03/2009

For those folks who have custom Office solutions within their enterprise, one area that you often...

Date: 10/22/2009

First off, I want to thank everyone who attended my two sessions at SPC on developing solutions on...

Date: 10/21/2009

We're just a couple of weeks away before the start of the SharePoint Conference (SPC) being held in...

Date: 10/09/2009

In a previous post, I gave you an overview of the functionality added to the Open XML SDK 2.0 August...

Date: 09/24/2009

In my previous post, I announced the release of the Open XML SDK August 2009 CTP. Today, I want to...

Date: 09/17/2009

I'm really happy to announce the release of the 3rd CTP for the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft...

Date: 08/27/2009

In my introduction post on the Open XML SDK I mentioned that the SDK is built on top of...

Date: 08/19/2009

In a previous post, I showed you how to create a product catalog in a Word document using the Open...

Date: 08/13/2009

I wanted to pass along some really exciting news. Brian Jones' blog is now available in Russian!...

Date: 08/10/2009

Fluent UI, or the Ribbon, was introduced as part of Office 2007 as a replacement of the previous...

Date: 08/03/2009

In my last post, I showed you guys how to embed an Excel spreadsheet within a Word document without...

Date: 07/21/2009

This week is really an exciting week for those of us who work on Office. We just released our first...

Date: 07/14/2009

A couple of weeks ago I gave a presentation on the Open XML SDK to a few customers, where I was...

Date: 06/30/2009

In today's post I am going to show you how to remove page and section breaks within a Word document...

Date: 06/15/2009

In previous posts, I showed you how to import charts from spreadsheets to a Wordprocessing document...

Date: 06/04/2009

There will be more details over the coming months on what's coming in Office 2010, and the power it...

Date: 06/01/2009

One of the big changes we made in the Open XML SDK v2 April 2009 CTP was improving the Low Level DOM...

Date: 05/19/2009

In previous posts, like Importing a Table from Word to Excel, I showed you how to retrieve content...

Date: 05/05/2009

In a previous post, I showed you how to remove comments from a Word file. In today's post, I am...

Date: 04/20/2009

More on Doug's blog:...

Date: 04/16/2009

I'm really happy to announce the release of the second CTP for version 2 of the Open XML SDK! Back...

Date: 04/08/2009

In a previous post, I showed you how to import charts from spreadsheets to a Wordprocessing...

Date: 04/01/2009

While I finish up another blog solution, this time on importing a table from Word into Excel, I...

Date: 03/26/2009

There have been several requests made by people asking how to import a chart from one document type...

Date: 03/13/2009

I just want to let you guys know we are working on some server issues here, which is why some of the...

Date: 03/05/2009

As promised in my previous post about reusable methods for manipulating WordprocessingML, I...

Date: 02/19/2009

In a previous post, I showed you guys the easy way to merge multiple Word documents into one final...

Date: 02/13/2009

One of the more common scenarios related to a Wordprocessing document is the need to sanitize a...

Date: 02/06/2009

For the past few posts, I have been concentrating on showing you guys solutions to real world...

Date: 01/28/2009

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