Category Archives: Examples

Office 2010 protocol documentation published

Posted on July 20, 2009 by oliver

I think this could well be another first for us. I’ve talked about the importance of the protocol documentation in past posts, but I think this is the first time we have had things written up and available so far … Continue reading →

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Open Government, real examples, not technology examples

Posted on February 12, 2009 by oliver

Since President Obama’s January inauguration there has been a lot of talk about what he has been calling Open Government, a plan to return to a US government that is representative and belongs to “we the people” as the US … Continue reading →

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jQuery & VS2008

Posted on October 1, 2008 by oliver

John Resig has a post up this morning discussing the integration of the jQuery JavaScript library into Visual Studio 2008. Microsoft is looking to make jQuery part of their official development platform. Their JavaScript offering today includes the ASP.NET Ajax … Continue reading →

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More Interop for Microsoft Office (ODF, PDF, PDF/A, XPS)

Posted on May 22, 2008 by oliver

There are no shortage of press and blog stories this morning sharing the news that Microsoft has committed to supporting version 1.1 of the Open Document Format in SP2 of Office 2007. As the announcement happened while those of us … Continue reading →

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New Zealand’s Intergen Deliver OpenXML Viewing Using Silverlight 2.0

Posted on March 7, 2008 by oliver

You might remember some time ago Intergen released a test project to CodePlex that converted IIS logs to SpreadsheetML. This week at MIX’08 in the United States they have done it again, this time releasing a Silverlight 2.0 based OpenXML … Continue reading →

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DocX4All – A Java Based DOCX editor…

Posted on February 22, 2008 by oliver

Over the last twelve months I have met a number of developers who are working with the OpenXML specification to build a wide range of applications. One of those developers is Jason Harrop, who has been working on a couple … Continue reading →

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RosettaNet Uses Ecma Open XML To Reach SMEs

Posted on October 25, 2007 by oliver

If you cast your mind back just over a year or so you might remember this agreement that Microsoft announced with Intel and RosettaNet to develop the next generation of their supply chain standards around Ecma Open XML. It turns … Continue reading →

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Open XML: Custom Schema Support

Posted on October 3, 2007 by oliver

 Another very long post I’m afraid… I promise to try harder in future.  A couple of days ago the comments on another post strayed into the area of custom schema support in the Ecma Open XML specification. In my reply … Continue reading →

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Jason Matusow: Independent Implementations of Open XML

Posted on September 14, 2007 by oliver

Jason Matusow has a posting on his blog this morning that explores some of the discussions around the ability for developers to build independent implementations of the Open XML file format and he pulls out some examples, including one of our … Continue reading →

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Open XML IIS Analyzer, available on CodePlex

Posted on September 8, 2007 by oliver

As we all know, over the last few months there have been a lot of different individuals and organizations looking at the Ecma Open XML file format specification, in many of those cases and as part of their investigation work … Continue reading →

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