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Thursday, September 24, 2009 2:36 PM

Finding Open XML Errors with Open XML SDK Validation

In a previous post, I gave you an overview of the functionality added to the Open XML SDK 2.0 August 2009 CTP . Today, I want to deep dive into the schema and semantic level validation support within the SDK. Specifically, I am going to show you guys
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Thursday, September 17, 2009 12:44 PM

Open XML SDK Code Snippets

In my previous post , I announced the release of the Open XML SDK August 2009 CTP . Today, I want to announce the release of the Open XML SDK code snippets . This package of code snippets provides over fifty reusable code samples, in both C# and VB.NET,
Posted by BrianJones | 8 Comments
Thursday, August 27, 2009 9:21 AM

Announcing the Release of the August 2009 CTP for the Open XML SDK

I'm really happy to announce the release of the 3 rd CTP for the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office ! So what did we do in this CTP? Well, there were three main improvements we made to the SDK: Add semantic level validation support Add markup compatibility/extensibility
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Thursday, August 13, 2009 5:58 PM

Adding Repeating Data to PowerPoint

In a previous post, I showed you how to create a product catalog in a Word document using the Open XML SDK . I also showed you how to make PowerPoint a reporting application based on data within a database . Today, I am going to show you how to create
Posted by BrianJones | 4 Comments
Monday, August 03, 2009 9:05 AM

The Open XML SDK and Fluent UI Extensibility

Fluent UI, or the Ribbon, was introduced as part of Office 2007 as a replacement of the previous system of toolbars and menus. The Fluent UI technology, like the Open XML formats, is based on xml, which allows for a much richer extensibility story for
Posted by BrianJones | 4 Comments
Thursday, May 22, 2008 10:04 AM

More on yesterday’s ODF announcement

Gray Knowlton had a great post yesterday laying out more of the details on the "Save as ODF" functionality that will be built in natively for Office 2007 SP2: http://blogs.technet.com/gray_knowlton/archive/2008/05/21/microsoft-adds-save-as-odf-to-office-2007-service-pack-2.aspx
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Thursday, February 21, 2008 8:13 AM

Big Interoperability Announcement

I'm traveling right now and don't have a lot of time to go really deep on this, but today's interoperability announcement is great for Microsoft for a lot of reasons. Gray Knowlton posted on this today , it's a great read if you want to understand how
Posted by BrianJones | 22 Comments
Wednesday, December 12, 2007 11:24 AM

Office 2007 SP1 is now available

SP1 for Office 2007 is now available for download. One of the interesting fixes we made was based on some problems we found when you tried to use the ODF translator that Sun has built for Office. Malte Timmermann pointed out on his blog back in the summer
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Monday, June 18, 2007 6:22 PM

Microsoft Office *not* dumped by Science and Nature

I saw this article today, and wanted to make sure that folks weren't confused about the latest with some of the publishers out there like Science as well as Nature. As I said last week, Murray and I have been talking with them trying to better understand
Posted by BrianJones | 20 Comments
Wednesday, June 13, 2007 3:05 PM

Open XML in Science and Nature; Deploying Office 2007; and more…

Here are a few interesting links I came across this week: Open XML in Science and Nature - Murray Sargent gives another update on the discussions we've been having with the folks from Science as well as Nature. They have some really cool publishing processes,
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007 10:52 AM

Get CompanyWeb to work with new extensions

David Overton has a blog post describing how folks with SBS can make a few updates so they get the new icons registered with the new extensions (as well as proper behavior with the open control): http://uksbsguy.com/blogs/doverton/archive/2007/03/13/how-to-get-companyweb-windows-sharepoint-services-v2-to-work-with-office-2007.aspx
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Friday, February 23, 2007 6:17 PM

Bulk upgrade your binary files to OpenXML

The Office Migration Planning Manager (OMPM) was released earlier this week. It's a tool that helps folks who are going to manage and upgrade to the latest version of Office (2007). Among other things, it will do a scan of your network to identify Office
Posted by BrianJones | 4 Comments
Wednesday, January 10, 2007 10:02 AM

The power of data-view separation in your documents

There is an excellent post over on the Word team blog that goes into details on how the new content controls feature (when parred with XML mapping) allows for powerful data-view separation in you wordprocessing documents. I've talked many times about
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Friday, January 05, 2007 6:17 PM

Links - Jan 05 2007

Hope everyone had a great first week of 2007. I'm just trying to adjust to being back at work myself. Here are a handful of interesting links from the week: The enchanted office This was brought to my attention yesterday. It's a comic meant to show the
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007 6:01 PM

“Directions on Microsoft” Report on Open XML formats

There is a new report out from Directions on Microsoft that discusses the new Open XML formats, and the impact on Office customers. It discusses the benefits that organizations will see from the formats, as well as some deployment recommendations. Here
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