March 2008 - Posts

Installing the Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint
31 March 08 06:50 PM | mordonez | 0 Comments   
Catching up on other topics, Ian Morrish recently wrote handy installation instructions for the Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint .  Ian also hosts a WSS site running the blueprint with some simple web parts. http://www.wssdemo.com/pages/silverlight2.aspx?PageView=Shared Read More...
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Open XML Nuggets 2008-03-27
27 March 08 10:00 PM | mordonez | 0 Comments   
Here are a few Open XML nuggets I've collected in the final days of consideration of DIS 29500 by the national standards bodies.   The Apache POI project is a Java API to access various document formats.  They have announced on their web page Read More...
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Opportunity Knocks
19 March 08 09:32 PM | mordonez | 0 Comments   
An open format creates new opportunities for implementation on a multitude of platforms and business models. Such is the case with Thinkfree, a South Korean software developer. Eric White interviewed Jae Hyun Park, the CTO of Thinkfree a while back, and Read More...
KPart Voodoo
10 March 08 10:39 PM | mordonez | 2 Comments   
The myth that Open XML's object embedding model is not compatible with KParts is much like the reanimated corpse of a zombie. Despite being dead, it comes back. Eric White has performed some KPart voodoo that will finally allow this one to rest. This Read More...
US Technical Committee Recommends Approval of Open XML
08 March 08 06:35 PM | mordonez | 1 Comments   
Doug Mahugh blogged that the US V1 Technical Committee recommended approval of DIS 29500 (Open XML) to the INCITS Executive Board. This is not the final US position, but it is an important positive step on the way to the US final position. Eric Lai, Computerworld's Read More...
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Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint goes live
06 March 08 07:54 | mordonez | 0 Comments   
In case you missed it, with the release of Siliverlight 2 beta 1 during MIX 08 , we also made available the samples source code for the Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint . The SharePoint team blogged about the blueprint earlier in the week, but we Read More...
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