Michael Bowman

Brent Gilbert, Senior Developement Lead on the Graphics team, discusses the OfficeArt Binary File Format. He provides a brief history, high level overview, addresses important conecpts and structures, and ends with some ideas on application integration.

Terry Mahaffey, Senior Development Engineer on the Outlook development team, discusses the PST SDK file format SDK. Terry is the author of the PST SDK and provides an excellent overview of the kit and describes important concepts when using it.

Terry Mahaffey, Senior Development Engineer on the Outlook development team, discusses the MS-PST file format. The talk covers the PST, LTP, and NDB layers within the format and provides a high level technical overview of the core PST concepts. The presentation is intended to introduce and provide direction...

Ash Morgan, Senior Development Lead on the PowerPoint team, discusses the MS-PPT binary file format. The presentation covers text and image extraction, file format streams, records, structures, containers, and more.   

Bill Wu, Principal Development Lead for Excel, discusses the MS-XLS binary file format. The presentation includes a brief history of MS-XLS, fundamental BIFF8 concepts, common BIFF8 structures, and additional security considerations.

This talk is aimed at a developer level audience and was recorded...

Daniel Snyder, Senior Development Lead on the Word team, discusses the MS-DOC binary file format. The presentation covers the overview of the format, a demonstration of text extraction, introduction of some important properties, locating different types of objects (pictures, shapes, Textboxes, and OLE...

Eray Chou, Lead Program Manager on the SharePoint Platform and Tools team, will walk us through the SharePoint Front-End Protocols. This presentation closely follows the MS-SPFEPO Open Specification document. This presentation will cover the topology and logical storage, core platform protocols, capabilities,...