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Monday, September 26, 2005 10:44 PM

Personal Computers 30 Years Ago

Last week, close to 20,000 Microsoft employees gathered together at Safeco field to celebrate Microsoft's 30 year anniversary. It was a very cheerful event. This prompted me to search trough my collection of books and magazines to find out what was the
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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 10:29 PM

The XPS (XML Paper Specification) Depot

One stop shop for XPS information
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Friday, September 16, 2005 10:27 AM

Printing to Microsoft XPS Document Writer without showing File Save Dialog Box

If you want to use the Microsoft XPS Writer to generate a large amount of XPS Documents, or use it in a server environment, you do not want the File Save dialog box to show up. Solution: specify output file name in DOCINFO passed to StartDoc.
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Thursday, September 15, 2005 4:39 PM

DIY generation of XPS Documents

Although Microsoft has already provided two ways to generate XPS Documents, there are benefits to generate them on your own. Here is some sample Win32 code for generating XPS Fixedpage markup.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005 12:22 PM

XPS (XML Pape Specification) 0.75 Spec Released

Microsoft just released the XPS Specification and Reference Guide today (Sep 13th 2005): http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/xps/default.mspx There are three new specifications for download: Open Packaging Conventions which describe the methods for packaging
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005 12:13 AM

Printing to legacy devices in Windows Presentation Foundation

In the two previous postings, we discussed about two different ways of generating XPS (XML Paper Specification) Documents, one being printing to XPS Document Writer from Win32 applications, and the other being using the new WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation)
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Monday, September 12, 2005 12:16 AM

Microsoft Digital Document Team at PDC 2005

Here are the sessions and other activities connected with the Microsoft Digital Document team at PDC 2005: Breakout Sessions DAT304 Unleashing the Power of XPS-Based File Formats for your Application Day/Time: Tuesday, September 13 2:45 PM- 4:00 PM Room:
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Monday, September 12, 2005 12:09 AM

Creating XPS Documents from Visual, plus an insider look at an XPS Document

In the last article blogs.msdn.com/fyuan/archive/2005/09/11/463708 , we discussed how to generate XPS Documents from Win32 applications using the XPS Document Writer. The procedure is very simple, can you simply print whatever contents you have using
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Sunday, September 11, 2005 2:08 PM

Generating XPS Document from Win32 Applications: the XPS Document Writer

At Winhec 2005, Microsoft announced a new file format code named Metro (Modular Content Framework and Document Format). The name Metro has since been retired and replaced with the official name XPS which stands for XML Paper Specification. XPS is a set
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Saturday, September 10, 2005 1:27 PM

Where are my shirts?

I ordered my offical Microsoft blue shirts for PDC two weeks ago. But three working days away from PDC, they are nowhere to be seen. Our admin has been on medical leave for two weeks, so I thought they may be delivered to her office and locked up there.
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Thursday, September 08, 2005 6:47 PM

Let's talk about printing at PDC05

PDC 2005 is just a few days away! Now we can finally talk about digital document/printing under Windows Presentation Foundation(originally known as Avalon) using real code. I will be at the following sessions: Track Lounges: Presentation Hands-on-Lab:
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