July 2008 - Posts

ODF workshop in Redmond
30 July 08 10:01 PM

We had our ODF workshop today in Redmond, and it was a busy day full of interesting conversation with a great bunch of people. We had the architects of our ODF implementation at the event, and they demonstrated various functionality for the attendees, Read More...

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Planning the maintenance of IS29500
23 July 08 12:23 PM

I'm in London this week for meetings with SC 34 Ad-Hoc Group 1 (AHG1) and Ecma TC45. I suppose London is an appropriate place for standards bodies to meet, having had a newspaper called the Standard for nearly 200 years. SC 34 AHG1 Meeting The AHG1 meeting Read More...

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Filed under: Open XML

Links for 07-15-2008
15 July 08 07:09 PM

Eric White on Linq and Open XML. Eric White has been posting some great code samples lately, including a sample of functional programming with the Open XML SDK , how to transform flat data into a hierarchy with Linq , and a set of blog posts on Writing Read More...

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DII Workshop on SP2 and ODF
09 July 08 09:21 PM

We’re holding a workshop in Redmond on July 30 to talk about our ODF support in Office 2007 SP2. This is a free workshop that we’re doing as part of our Document Interoperability Initiative , to share information with the developer community and solicit Read More...

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My new role in Office interoperability
01 July 08 04:08 PM

Brian Jones mentioned on his blog yesterday that he’s going to be pretty focused on Office 14 going forward and people should look over here on my blog for information about Office’s approach to interoperability and file formats going forward. I’d like Read More...

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