July 2006 - Posts

Open XML Compatibility and Rehydration
28 July 06 02:00 PM

The new Open XML file formats offer true compatibility with all of the billions of Office documents that already exist. You can take any existing Office document (well, any created in the last decade or so), open it in Office 2007 Beta 2, and then save Read More...

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TechReady3 and Open XML
26 July 06 08:22 AM

This week we're having a huge conference at the convention center in Seattle for Microsoft employees. It's called TechReady, and it's an opportunity for salespersons, consultants, evangelists, and others from around the world to travel to the Redmond Read More...

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Office Design Page
26 July 06 07:47 AM

I saw a reference to the official Office design page in Jensen Harris's latest post . It's really cool, check it out! It has a nice crisp design, and more personality than most of these sorts of resources. "People spend more time with Office than the Read More...

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Minimizing VPC Image Size
20 July 06 01:18 PM

If you use Virtual PC, here's a great post by Jeff Atwood on how to create a minimal Windows XP/SP2 platform for a baseline image to build upon. His approach gets the image down to 758MB, and it's only 243MB when compressed with WinRAR! If you're not Read More...

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Open XML file format: Word 2007 article
18 July 06 05:03 PM

Ever since Beta 2 of the 2007 Microsoft Office System came out, the amount of content around the new file formats has been growing rapidly. And I keep finding cool new resources that I didn't know existed. Here's a great one: a 22-page article on MSDN Read More...

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Office Web Components Roadmap
17 July 06 11:11 AM

Current and future plans for Office Web Components can be found on the Excel team blog this morning. The introduction of Excel Services supersedes the OWC approach, but support for OWC apps built around the currently shipping version of Office (2003) Read More...

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Business Data Catalog Simplified
17 July 06 07:55 AM

If you've ever seen a demo of the cool new BDC functionality in Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007, you've probably come away with two conclusions: 1) It's an incredibly powerful and flexible concept. (XML configuration files that connect Sharepoint's Read More...

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CreateXlsx sample program
15 July 06 01:07 PM

This post covers the code for a CreateXlsx program that creates a simple Open XML spreadsheet from scratch using the .NET Framework 3.0 packaging API (System.IO.Packaging), as well as two of the Open XML code snippets that are available on MSDN . Full Read More...

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C# Conventions and Project MRU Cleaner
13 July 06 10:02 AM

I had a lively conversation with my manager yesterday afternoon about C# programming conventions. I was arguing for clarity and readability, and he was arguing for consistency with prevailing C# coding conventions. I'm a big fan of using white space to Read More...

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.NET User Group and Open XML
06 July 06 02:54 PM

Last night I had the opportunity to give a presentation on Open XML development at the monthly meeting of the Seattle .NET User Group . As promised, here's a wrap-up of the links I mentioned in the presentation: Where to download the schemas: Office Open Read More...

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ODF support? In Office?
06 July 06 01:43 PM

Well, not built-in, but today's announcement of the Open XML Translator , an open-source project to deliver an ODF add-in for Word 2007, means that you'll be able to easily create ODF documents from Word 2007 if your organization has standardized on ODF. Read More...

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Introduction to the WSS V3 Object Model
04 July 06 05:49 PM

It's been a while since Dan Winter has posted anything on his blog, but it was worth the wait. His introduction to the WSS V3 object model is full of useful hands-on info about differences between V2 and V3, and includes a great set of links to useful Read More...

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