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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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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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Updated binary formats documentation
30 June 08 11:16 AM
We have announced today the release of version 1.0 of technical documentation for a variety of protocols used by Office, SharePoint and Exchange. this brings the total amount of protocol documentation available for free download on MSDN to about 50,000 Read More...
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Open XML links for 06-22-2008
22 June 08 03:32 PM
Here are some interesting blog posts from the last week, as well as a few items I had missed while I was at TechEd but discovered while catching up on my RSS feeds today ... Wouter Van Vugt has an excellent post on "Embedding repeating elements in a schema-mapped Read More...
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Open XML diff tools
18 June 08 08:49 AM
When learning about Open XML or developing Open XML solutions, it's very common to find yourself wondering "what's the difference between these two documents?" For example, you may see something in a document that you'd like to recreate programmatically, Read More...
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Open XML Power Tools
12 June 08 08:40 AM
Hot on the heels of the release of Version 1 of the Open XML SDK earlier this week, Eric White has posted information about a cool project that is built with the SDK: the Open XML Power Tools project. the Open XML Power Tools are a set of PowerShell cmdlets Read More...
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Open XML SDK Version 1 released
10 June 08 06:15 PM
Version 1 of the Open XML SDK is now available for free download from MSDN. Here are the links: Open XML Formats SDK download link: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=120908 Open XML Formats SDK documentation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb448854.aspx Read More...
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Open XML SDK session at TechEd
04 June 08 01:26 PM
This afternoon at TechEd, Zeyad Rajabi demonstrated some of the ways developers can use the Open XML SDK to read and write Open XML documents. He started with the basics, such as how to create a hello-world document ( as shown on MSDN ), then progressed Read More...
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TechEd Orlando
03 June 08 01:15 PM
If you're at TechEd in Orlando this week, come on by the Open XML booth to get a copy of the recently updated Open XML developer poster (thanks Erika!). I'll be here for TechEd/Developer and TechEd/IT Pro, so hope to see you here. What's new with the Read More...
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Office support for document format standards
21 May 08 12:01 PM
If you're an Office 2007 user, the image above probably looks pretty familiar. But look close, and you'll see some Save-As options you've not seen before here: OpenDocument, and (unless you have the existing add-in ) PDF & XPS . This is a screen shot Read More...
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Open XML links for 05-19-2008
19 May 08 10:15 AM
Open XML can help you skip school. I've covered in the past how ISVs, corporate developers, information workers, and public-sector decision makers can benefit from Open XML standardization, but my colleague Pranav Wagh has addressed a hitherto-ignored Read More...
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DAISY translator released
09 May 08 10:17 AM
I was traveling on Tuesday/Wednesday this week and wasn't around when the news came out, but the DAISY translator plugin for Word and an update to the DAISY Pipeline were announced on Wednesday. Here are a few places to learn more about how it works and Read More...
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OpenOffice 3.0 beta can read docx/xslx/pptx formats
09 May 08 07:13 AM
The beta code for OpenOffice 3.0 has been released, and it includes Open XML read support: Behind the scenes, OpenOffice.org 3.0 will support the upcoming OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.2 standard, and is capable of opening files created with MS-Office 2007 Read More...
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