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I don't do so much with Open XML these days but I still get a few questions from people and I'm still on some of the internal aliases. A recent message from Eric White caught my eye. " Pranav Wagh has built a much improved version of OpenXmlDiff
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I've been trying to help someone out recently who'd built themselves a nice little add-in for Word 2007 to streamline the process of adding, binding and validating content controls. It stuck me that few people know about these features and even fewer
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Eric's blogged about a new open source initiative on CodePlex for processing Open XML documents using PowerShell. Very interesting. He's even made a video showing how to get up and running with it quickly. The PowerTools include a host of PowerShell cmdlets
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Later today you'll be able to download the Open XML SDK v1 (currently the April CTP - make sure it's changed before you download!). This release includes a set of APIs designed for manipulating Open XML format documents at the part level (ie wrapping
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October 27-30th in the Los Angeles Conference Center, LA is where you want to be. Registration for the Professional Developers Conference 2008 has just opened. You know the deal by now: "The PDC is designed for leading-edge developers and software
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A long time ago, I wrote about my self-inflicted woes when I accidentally associated winword.exe as my zip file handler in Vista. Then last night I got a mail from Rob (sorry Rob, haven't got a link for you) saying that my post ranks fairly high in the
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From Brian Jones blog: Open XML Overwhelmingly Approved as an ISO / IEC standard (IS 29500): the end of the file formats war . It would be nice to think that all that surplus energy can now be channeled into looking forwards, developing the standard and
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I get asked about this a lot and, to date, my answers have been very vague as I simply didn't know what the deal was (no longer being heavily involved with SharePoint I hadn't tried it myself). Anyway, I was pleasantly surprised to see an announcement
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If you do any Office development, then you need to check out the VSTO Power Tools v1.0.0.0 which include: Open XML Package Editor Ribbon IDs Tool Window Office Custom UI Manager Office Interop API Extensions SharePoint Feature Sweeper SharePoint Workflow
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Just noticed some good news earlier this week on Brian Jones blog about new initiatives to make it easier to get access to the binary formats documentation (it will be made available as a direct download from the Microsoft website) and the creation of
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I'm not so involved with Office Open XML these days - I passed the baton to Martin a while back - but this blog post entitled "Burton Group slams ODF, praises OOXML" by Tim Anderson caught my eye. He also made me smile when he said he had to
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Now published on the MSDN Nuggets site so you can enjoy them in their original high res format with Dobly surround sound etc :-) http://www.microsoft.com/uk/msdn/nuggets Technorati Tags: office , open xml , nuggets
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Link to video on Soapbox (from here you can watch full screen) Technorati Tags: office , open xml
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Link to video on Soapbox (from here you can watch full screen) Technorati Tags: office , open xml
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Okay, slight problem publishing to the MSDN nuggets site currently so instead of waiting around, I'll embed a Soapbox version here and follow up with Parts 2 & 3. Expect them to appear on the MSDN site in the fullness of time... Link to video on Soapbox
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