One of the interesting characteristics of LINQ to XML as implemented in the .NET framework is that it uses atomized XNamespace and XName objects, and this means that LINQ to XML has very good performance for many common scenarios. The Ltxml.js library...

Today, I’m very pleased to announce the release on CodePlex (at ltxmljs.codeplex.com ) of the first release of an XML processing library for JavaScript that is inspired by and largely similar to the LINQ to XML library for .NET. One of the most...

This is the third in a series of screen-casts that will show all the ins and outs of SpreadsheetML. My goal is to present all of the most commonly used features of spreadsheets and how they are represented in SpreadsheetML. I will not be including any...

Note from Eric White: This is the second post in a series of guest posts by Florian Reuter. He has written a pretty cool library for working with OPC files (published at http://libopc.codeplex.com/ ). In the next post, he is going to cover his libopc...

Jim Thatcher has posted details of the file format options in the next version of Office and its support of IS29500 strict. From his post, the following table shows the evolution of file format support in the last few versions of Office: Office 2003 Office...

Note from Eric White: This is the first post in a series of guest posts by Florian Reuter. He has written a pretty cool library for working with OPC files (published at http://libopc.codeplex.com/ ). In upcoming posts, he is going to cover Markup Compatibility...

It is becoming more and more common for developers to write rich client-side applications using AJAX, and these applications often want to implement some form of Open XML functionality. Your application could automatically generate a word-processing document...

Stephen Oliver has announced that the Open XML SDK 2.5 CTP for Microsoft Office, a pre-release build of the next version of Open XML SDK 2.0, is now available for download! From his blog post: Most applications built with the Open XML SDK 2.0 will work...

This is the second in a series of screen-casts that will show all the ins and outs of SpreadsheetML. My goal is to present all of the most commonly used features of spreadsheets and how they are represented in SpreadsheetML. I will not be including any...

This is a fun project that I've been meaning to do for some time - and I finally found the time in the last week. T4 Text Templates are a very cool technology in Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 that make it super-easy to generate C# code, XML, or other...

This is the first in a series of screen-casts that will show all the ins and outs of SpreadsheetML. My goal is to present all of the most commonly used features of spreadsheets and how they are represented in SpreadsheetML. I will not be including any...

This screen-cast continues the introduction to WordprocessingML, introducing annotations, which include comments, bookmarks, proofing errors, range permissions, and revision tracking markup. The screen-cast contains some best-practice pointers for each...

This screen-cast is one in a series on an intro to Open XML. This screen-cast is the second in a series on WordprocessingML. Return to the Table of Contents of this screen-cast series.

This screen-cast is the first in a series on a basic intro to WordprocessingML. This series will be a walk through all important aspects of WordprocessingML. My goal is to do a 'brain-dump' of all aspects of WordprocessingML that I've learned...

This video continues where the previous video ( Overview of the Open Packaging Conventions - Part 1 ) leaves off. In this screen-cast, I cover relationship types, relationship ids, internal/external relationships, explicit/implicit relationships, and...