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• My blog has moved

  After having worked as a trainer for Info Support the past couple of years I have transitioned to the next phase of my career. I have started my own company Code Counsel through which I actively evangelize Microsoft .NET technology, with a focus on SharePoint Read More... Posted Saturday, November 03, 2007 12:58 PM by wouterv | 3 Comments

• Open XML @ TechEd Europe 2007

  In a few days one of the biggest IT events in Europe is starting: TechEd Developers and the TechEd IT Forum . Come join many professionals and learn about new and current technologies. I will be attending TechEd Developers, together with a few collegues. Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 7:30 PM by wouterv | 1 Comments Filed under: Open XML, TechEd

• Откройте XML в России

  Я весьма горд объявить российский выпуск Открытого XML Объясненная книга. Есть другие переводы в создании и немногих доступный уже. Очень прохладный! Я надеюсь, что Вы любите читать маленькую книгу и что это обеспечивает немного ценных пониманий в мир Read More... Posted Friday, October 26, 2007 7:23 AM by wouterv | 6 Comments Filed under: Open XML, TechEd

• Open XML in Healthcare

  Just learned from Microsoft that the white-paper on Open XML in healthcare is available on MSDN. The goal of the whitepaper is to show how Open XML can increase the portability of health records and empower the end-user in the tooling that they are familiar Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 24, 2007 7:53 AM by wouterv | 4 Comments Filed under: Open XML, MSDN

• Updated extraction XSLT

  I updated the XSLT of the previous post. Mapped XML inside a table wasn't working properly, and now it is. Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2007 12:14 PM by wouterv | 0 Comments

• Extracting data from a xml-mapped document

  I have just returned from an MSDN InTrack session over here in the Microsoft Technology Center about Office Open XML and I wanted to share one of the demos I created for this event with you. The demo app extracts XML data from an XML-mapped WordprocessingML Read More... Posted Thursday, October 11, 2007 8:14 PM by wouterv | 2 Comments

• OpenOffice developer strikes out at Sun

  Funny to see that Microsoft software is called 'closed', and they are always accused of overly protecting their markets. This is from one of the OO developers: But I’d love to be proven wrong. I’d love to be proven that Sun still are Read More... Posted Saturday, October 06, 2007 10:20 AM by wouterv | 10 Comments Filed under: Open XML

• You've got the source Luke, You've got the source

  Notified by my collegue Bart, who is a bit slower on blogtyping than I am :) http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/10/03/releasing-the-source-code-for-the-net-framework-libraries.aspx Read More... Posted Thursday, October 04, 2007 11:32 AM by wouterv | 1 Comments

• Get a hard-copy of the Open XML - The Markup Explained book

  The fruits of my labor are finally getting there. I just learned from Doug that he'll be sending over a container ship with hard-copies of my first book on Open XML. This means I can finally satisfy the overwhelming demand of people wanting to get Read More... Posted Friday, September 28, 2007 6:16 PM by wouterv | 12 Comments Filed under: Open XML

• The three-layered cake

  Besides funny IT stories: http://worsethanfailure.com/Articles/The-Mythical-Business-Layer.aspx Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2007 2:51 PM by wouterv | 0 Comments

• Come jump in with me

  Thinking of leaping into .NET, Open XML, or SharePoint? Not sure where to start? Come jump in with me! Read More... Posted Monday, September 10, 2007 10:16 AM by wouterv | 3 Comments Filed under: Open XML, .NET, SharePoint

• The Package Explorer splash screen: Multi-threaded application initialization

  Besides the nifty HTML start page that Package Explorer 3.0 will be using, there is another feature that I am quite happy about; the splash screen. Now you have splash screens and splash screens, and mine of course needed to be a proper splash screen. Read More... Posted Saturday, August 25, 2007 6:14 PM by wouterv | 7 Comments Filed under: Package Explorer

• Package Explorer Start Page - How to use Win32 resources and the res:// protocol from .NET

  One of the cool new features that I am working on for RC2 of Package Explorer is a start page that is presented when the application starts. Because of the graphical nature of these startpages many applications like IDEs choose to use an HTML page that Read More... Posted Saturday, August 25, 2007 12:08 PM by wouterv | 1 Comments Filed under: Package Explorer

• 75% approve in the States

  Just in: http://ballot.itic.org/itic/tallyvote.taf?function=vote&committee=INCITS&ballot_id=2341&_UserReference=96EBDF227BF339D246CE4E20 It appears that the INCITS will move to vote Approve with Comments. The latest ballot resulted in 12 approves, Read More... Posted Friday, August 24, 2007 10:21 AM by wouterv | 0 Comments Filed under: Open XML, ISO

• A funny spin

  While checking up on my RSS feeds I came across this one which has a great quote. "So we have language. And, although specialists may disagree, the English language allows us to express ourselves effectively. I propose to abolish all other languages Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 22, 2007 8:31 PM by wouterv | 2 Comments Filed under: Open XML