April 2008 - Posts
There is a cool add-in for Visual Studio that I use. It is the Open XML Package Editor, which is a graphical treeview based editor for examining and editing Open XML Package files. Once you install the add-in, you can drag an Open XML document into Visual
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Some time ago, I was talking to some members of a team that used LINQ and LINQ to XML in one particular area of their code. They said that the code written using a conventional approach to XML was in the order of 6000 lines of code. When re-written using
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[Blog Map] This is a bit of a geeky post for the LINQ and LINQ to XML folks. This post introduces a GroupAdjacent generic extension method that groups elements in a collection with adjacent elements based on a common key. For example, grouping the following
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Erika Ehrli has just posted the news that the April 2008 CTP of the Open XML SDK is now live on the web, and available for download! I'm really excited about the direction that the Open XML SDK team is taking. My favorite new feature of the SDK is the
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Jan van den Beld has a great post that exposes the hypocisy of the anti-Open XML community. An excerpt from his post: Many views should come to bear on decisions made in standards bodies. It is ok to represent your views. It’s healthy. But it seems inappropriate
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Steven McGibbon notes that Standards Norway have posted a press release "Standard Norges behandling av OOXML for avstemming i ISO". He has posted a quick translation . He will replace with an official text if Standards Norway releases an English version.
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