XML

Jean Paoli was bouncing around the offices here in building 18 today. Who's he? One of the co-creators of XML. Why was he happy? Because Office just announced their new file formats all built in XML. "We just turned on 400 million new people to XML," he told us. Other…

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…

Ken Levy, a Channel 9 veteran interviewee, talks to us about the nifty XML tools in Visual Studio 2005. Download Size - 134 MB Enjoy  

Ofice 2007 has new file formats for Word, Excel and Powerpoint, based on industry-standard ZIP and XML technologies.  These formats were getting a lot of attention at the Office Devcon, where Bill Gates announced the Open XML Formats Developer Group in his keynote presentation.  This…

As you may have heard me say before, I love Tower Defense games. In fact, I've always wanted to build one or two but the main problem is that I'm better with ideas than programming. On the other hand, TD games are all very similar—creeps go in, creeps (try to) go out. Meanwhile you try your best to…

In this interview Dmitry Robsman, the Product Unit Manager for ASP.NET, shows us how he implemented ASP.NET MVC views using Visual Basic's XML Literals instead of .aspx pages. He shows us how this makes coding the views much cleaner using standard OOP principals. He also makes some very…

A birthday greeting from Jean Paoli, President of Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., and Co-Creator of XML 1.0 @ W3C.

Michael Rys, a program manager on SQL Server's engine team, talks with us all about XML in the upcoming SQL Server 2005.He gives us some demos about 27:22 into the video.

The Web Services platforms represents the evolution of past distributed component technologies. They really were the result of developments and companies struggling with the various interoperability issues that were common with other technologies. Web Services aren’t the only distributed…

  Dare, who is a program manager on the XML team, recommends visiting MSDN's XML Dev Center to learn more about XML. How about you? What are the best places to learn about XML (and subsets like RSS)?