March 2007 - Posts

Developer & IT Pro Days
27 March 07 11:35 PM
I'm in Ghent, Belgium today for Developer & IT Pro Days, where I'll be doing an Open XML breakout session this afternoon as well as some meetings with MVPs, RDs, press and others. The two photos below were taken on a walk around the area near the Read More...
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On the road in Prague
26 March 07 01:23 AM
I'm in Prague today and tomorrow for an Open XML workshop over at the Microsoft office, which will be a great opportunity for me to learn about document-format needs and perspectives here in the Czech Republic. This is my first trip to Prague, but I won't Read More...
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Custom XML markup
26 March 07 01:16 AM
I recently covered an example of how to implement custom XML parts in Open XML documents , and in this post we're going to take a look at another way Open XML supports custom schemas: custom XML markup. With custom XML parts, you have an XML instance Read More...
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Open XML links for 03-22-2007
22 March 07 09:27 PM
A few recent and upcoming events related to Open XML ... Harvard Workshop. Brian Jones is at a workshop entitled "Cross-Boundary Governance through Agreements and Standards" at Harvard this week, and it sounds like an interesting event. Speakers include Read More...
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Open XML Videos
19 March 07 03:04 PM
Several of my favorite Open XML developers were in Redmond last week, so I spent some time recording videos with them. Read the details over on OpenXmlDeveloper , or click any of the links below to go straight to the videos on Channel9. Read More...
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Open XML Workshop
18 March 07 10:19 PM
We had an Open XML workshop in Redmond last week. It was rather spur-of-the-moment, frankly: we planned it less than three weeks before it took place. But this workshop is about to be delivered in many locations worldwide, and we wanted a chance to go Read More...
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Open XML Developers
15 March 07 06:47 AM
Caught in the wild: a gaggle of Open XML developers. This is at a dinner event at the Rockbottom Brewery in Bellevue this week, when we got together with a bunch of the Open XML developers who were in town for an Open XML workshop and also the MVP Summit. Read More...
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Are these winning tactics?
12 March 07 01:14 PM
My colleague Stephen McGibbon over in Europe has blogged about an offensive comment somebody posted on Brian Jones's blog , likening Open XML (I think) to the Dresden firebombings. Or maybe it's Microsoft that is like the Germans, or something ... I really Read More...
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Excel 2007 and the Open XML file formats
11 March 07 08:58 PM
Erika Ehrli has two more great articles in the "Office Visual How-To" series for developers. See Erika's blog for all the details. These are based on the work Ken Getz has done with the Visual Studio code snippets for Open XML, and they're well-written Read More...
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XBRL and Open XML
09 March 07 11:26 AM
As a brief follow-up to my post on microformats and Open XML , I'd like to show a slightly different (and, frankly, more common) variation on using custom XML parts. Many organizations and industries have custom schemas that they've standardized upon. Read More...
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Open XML links for 03-07-2007
07 March 07 06:33 PM
Cairo University's Mohammad Nour El-din Marwan has a great post on "Generating Dynamic OpenXML Docx Files" that describes a template-driven approach for generating data-driven Open XML word-processing documents. Hong Kong's Office of the Government CIO Read More...
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Microformats and Open XML
03 March 07 09:37 PM
Like most people, I hadn't heard of microformats a year ago. But now the concept seems to be gathering momentum. Microformats have their limitations, but they offer a practical way to solve a common interoperability problem: how to add structured data Read More...
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Interoperability: what's in a name?
01 March 07 02:02 PM
Interoperability is one of those words that means different things to different people. We all agree that it means something like "the ability of systems to work effectively together," but beyond that our agreements get murky at best. Consider, for example, Read More...
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