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Monday, March 31, 2008 3:50 PM

Open XML Resources for Developers

Doug has a great post today that helps get us back to what really matters in this whole file format discussion (at least if you're a developer). He links to a number of existing resources that can help folks who are just now getting started with Open
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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
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007 9:25 AM

WordprocessingML Document Model

I thought it might be worthwhile to give a bit of an overview of the WordprocessingML model that you see in the Open XML standard. There are some people who've played with other formats like HTML or DocBook that are curious why WordprocessingML doesn't
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Friday, July 06, 2007 11:51 AM

Friday links (July 6, 2007)

A couple interesting topics I wanted to link to today: Rick Jelliffe makes my week – Rick has a great post called "Slashdotters: all together now… 'Doh!'" that pretty well sums up my experiences over the past several years. When we first announced the
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Monday, July 02, 2007 12:14 PM

Back from vacation with some good Open XML news

Hey folks, sorry for not posting in awhile. I was initially going to be on a two week vacation (starting June 15 th ), but some stuff came up with work where I had to fly out to Singapore and Japan for the first week of my planned time off. My wife met
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007 12:00 PM

IBM shows off solutions for OpenXML

Stephen was telling me about this article that IBM had written that demonstrated: "consuming and repurposing MS Office 2007 documents is easy with IBM DB2 pureXML features. There really is not much code involved which is conducive to great performance."
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Friday, June 08, 2007 3:46 AM

Altova’s XMLSpy supports Open XML

Altova's XMLSpy now has rich support for working with the Open XML formats. As they say in their press release: XMLSpy provides powerful support for accessing, editing, transforming, and querying XML data saved in Microsoft® Office 2007 documents and
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Thursday, June 07, 2007 7:36 AM

Article on “Using Java to Crack Office 2007”

There is an article up on InfoQ showing how you can use Java to work with the Open XML formats. Go ahead and take a look: http://www.infoq.com/articles/cracking-office-2007-with-java While the title of the article says Office 2007, you all know that Open
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Tuesday, June 05, 2007 5:31 AM

More blogs on the Open XML dev tools

Some more folks posted about the Open XML formats SDK which we released yesterday as a technology preview: Kevin Boske – Kevin gives a great example of how the new SDK can already significantly reduce the amount of code you need to write, simply by giving
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Monday, June 04, 2007 10:40 AM

Open XML SDK – tech preview

Last week I pointed out the open source project to create a Java library for programming against the open xml formats. Well today at TechEd we announced the release of an early preview of a managed API for the Open XML formats. It's available for download
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Friday, June 01, 2007 9:07 AM

Open XML Java Library

The OpenXML4J project website is now up and running: http://www.openxml4j.org/ This is an open source project to create a Java library for consuming and generating files in the Open XML formats. Here's a diagram of their planned architecture: As they
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007 11:57 AM

Simple SpreadsheetML file Part 3 - Formatting

Over 5 months later, I've finally had some free time to pull together part 3 of my "Intro to SpreadsheetML" posts. I'll pick up where I left off in Part 2, so if you need a little refresher, please head back to the first 2 posts: Simple SpreadsheetML
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Friday, April 20, 2007 9:57 AM

A few updates on the OpenXML formats

Sorry I've been offline for the past couple weeks. I've been meaning to post some content for awhile but I've been swamped with Office 14 planning. I was trying to stay up on the comments from my last post , but still ended up slacking there as well (I'm
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Tuesday, April 03, 2007 11:18 AM

Visual tool for developers working with the Open XML formats

For those of you who are working with Open XML files, there is a great tool out there on Codeplex called the " Package Explorer ". It's an open source project that's already pretty far along, and it was started by Wouter Van Vugt . Wouter is one of the
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007 4:23 PM

Programming against the OpenXML formats with Java

For those of you looking into what type of Java support there is for the OpenXML formats, you should check out this project on SourceForge where they are building a Java based OpenXML API. http://sourceforge.net/projects/openxml4j/ Up until now, Java
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