Open XML

In this video we talk with Matthew Scott, a developer on the Word team who takes us through the design and development of the Word 2007 Content Control Toolkit, an application that natively reads and writes Word documents saved in the Open XML file format.  This application has been…

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news including: - Office 14 is now Office 2010, Exchange 2010 beta is now available, and SharePoint will be SharePoint 2010. Office 2010 includes cool features like - Excel Web Access - Editing a  PowerPoint…

John Durant just returned from the Microsoft SharePoint Conference where a number of new SharePoint features were announced. In this episode he shares some of those features with us and describes how they can help developers in a variety of ways.John will be doing a couple sessions at PDC09…

Today, Microsoft announced the public availability of a set of managed libraries, samples and documentation for programming Open XML in a manner .NET developers have grown accustomed to (writing applications in Visual Studio, programming in C#, etc..).Chris Bryant is a Senior Product Manager on…

In this screencast, program manager Amani Ahmed demonstrates how to create a Word 2007 template which can transfer data seamlessly to and from a SharePoint document library using content controls. See also Part 1 of this demonstration with Travis Ratnam. Related links: Tristan Davis's post…

MindManager Pro 7 is a visual outliner from Mindjet that "enables companies and individuals to work smarter, think creatively and save time by revolutionizing the way they visually capture and manage information." In this screencast, Mindjet's Michael Scherotter demonstrates a…

In this screencast, Word program manager Travis Ratnam demonstrates the rich integration of Word 2007 and Sharepoint. See also Part 2 of this demonstration with Amani Ahmed. Related links: Tristan Davis's post on Content Controls Word Team Blog

Brian Jones has been working on infusing XML smarts into Office for six years. In this episode we discuss the history of, the current status of, and future prospects for XML-enabled Office applications.

In this screencast, Office program manager Brian Jones shows how to use a custom schema to import data from Excel 2007 into a Word 2007 document.   Microsoft has adopted the Office Open XML file format, as the new default file format for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 to reduce…

In this screencast, Office program manager Brian Jones shows how to use content controls, data binding, and the custom XML data store to push/pull data to/from a Word 2007 document.   Microsoft has adopted the Office Open XML file format, as the new default file format for Word,…