Brian Jones: Office Solutions
I'm Brian Jones, the group program manager of the Office Solutions Framework team.
Pushing Data from a Database into a Word Document
First off I want to thank everyone for leaving comments suggesting future posts about the Open XML...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 01/19/2009
Open XML SDK... The Basics
Hi, my name is Ali and I'm a developer on the Word team. I have been part of the feature team...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 01/12/2009
Taking Advantage of Bound Content Controls
Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a good holiday. For my first post of the New Year I want to talk...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 01/05/2009
The Easy Way to Assemble Multiple Word Documents
One of the most common requests we hear related to word processing documents is the ability to merge...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 12/08/2008
Open XML SDK Session at PDC
I wanted to share with you guys some really cool demos and source code I presented at PDC last...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 12/01/2008
ISO/IEC publishes the Office Open XML specification
There was some great news yesterday for those of you waiting to see what the final version of the...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 11/20/2008
Creating a Presentation Report Based on Data
In my last two posts, I showed you how to create a spreadsheet based on data and how to read data...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 11/18/2008
Writing semantically aware LINQ queries against Excel tables
I hope you all have been enjoying Zeyad's articles showing some of the powerful solutions you can...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 11/14/2008
Reading Data from SpreadsheetML
In my last post, I showed you how to create a spreadsheet based on data from a database using the...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 11/10/2008
Document Assembly Solution for SpreadsheetML
In my last post I gave a high level overview of the architecture of the SDK. Now that we've gone...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 11/04/2008
Open XML SDK 2.0 Architecture
In my first post on the Open XML SDK, I talked about the overall design of the SDK with respect to...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 10/14/2008
Open XML Format SDK 2.0
Hello, my name is Zeyad Rajabi and I am a Program Manager on Brian's team. For the next several...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 10/06/2008
Looking for some good reading on Open XML?
Wow, can't believe it's been over a month since my last post. I've been pretty busy getting back...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 06/30/2008
More on yesterday’s ODF announcement
Gray Knowlton had a great post yesterday laying out more of the details on the "Save as ODF"...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 05/22/2008
ODF support in Office
I took a few weeks off recently, which is why my blog has been fairly inactive the past month. I...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 05/21/2008
ISO takes full control - SC34 now moving forward on maintenance and evolution of Open XML
I'm heading home from Norway in the morning, but wanted to give a quick update on the progress made...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 04/09/2008
Open XML Overwhelmingly Approved as an ISO / IEC standard (IS 29500): the end of the file formats war
I'm sure many folks have seen the news by now that Open XML has been approved as an ISO/IEC standard...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 04/01/2008
Open XML Resources for Developers
Doug has a great post today that helps get us back to what really matters in this whole file format...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 03/31/2008
German standards body responds to "incorrect and misleading" reports
Via Stephen McGibbon:...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 03/31/2008
Norway vote is now “yes” for Open XML
Norway has also decided to change their vote to "yes" for DIS 29500 (Open XML)....
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 03/28/2008
South Korea vote is now “yes” for Open XML
Oliver Bell just informed me that South Korea has decided to vote for approval of DIS 29500 (Open...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 03/28/2008
Denmark vote is now “yes” for Open XML
Jesper Lund Stocholm is reporting that Denmark has decided to change their initial vote of "no" in...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 03/28/2008
Finland vote is now “yes” for Open XML
Here's the official statement, although it's in Finnish:...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 03/27/2008
Another example of Open XML as a submission format...
Just saw this on Pablo's blog: Covering yet another set of scientific disciplines, last month the...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 03/27/2008
The OSP will apply to DIS 29500 (Open XML) going forward
Oliver has a post today discussing this, as it's come up a lot in the discussions he's been having:...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 03/27/2008
Miguel de Icaza’s views on Open XML, and what the next steps should be
Interesting post from Miguel today: https://tirania.org/blog/archive/2008/Mar-26.html I have been...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 03/26/2008
Video clip of the add-in for authoring Scientific Articles
If you want to get an idea of how the add-in works, Pablo has posted a short video: Pablo suggested...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 03/26/2008
HP in favor of Open XML
www.hp.com/go/officedocumentstandards "In the current vote on OOXML at JTC 1, HP is supporting an...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 03/26/2008
Czech vote is now “yes” for Open XML
I just saw this on Stephen McGibbon's website:...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 03/26/2008
Can I mention that it’s also in ODF?
I try to keep the discussion on this blog primarily focused on the area I care most about, the...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 03/25/2008
ODF editor believes Open XML standardization is good for ODF
Via Stephen McGibbon:...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 03/24/2008
German technical committee votes “yes” on Open XML
There was an article published last week that describes the results of the voting in the technical...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 03/24/2008
Out of time?
I wanted to talk about some of the comments I wish we could have dealt with but we didn't have...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 03/20/2008
Using Open XML to author scientific and technical articles
Pablo Fernicola has the news today that we've released a tech preview of an article authoring add-in...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 03/20/2008
Ongoing support for IS 29500 (Open XML)
We're a couple weeks away from the final decision on whether DIS 29500 will become IS 29500 and if...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 03/18/2008
Narrative of the ISO/IEC DIS-29500 BRM Meeting
BRM Summary I wanted to take the time to give a narrative of what actually happened in the BRM,...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 03/16/2008
Interesting Links (March 13 2008)
Gray looks into some of the recent thoughts from Patrick Durusau:...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 03/13/2008
Object embedding in Open XML
There were some concerns raised earlier on that the Open XML format required a specific object...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 03/10/2008
U.S. TC will approve Open XML as an ISO standard
Doug Mahugh just posted about a call this afternoon where the U.S. V1 technical committee reviewed...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 03/07/2008
ODF editor speaks out in support of Open XML
Patrick Durusau, the editor for ODF 1.0 and 1.2, as well as the chair of INCITS V1, has a new post...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 03/06/2008
More thoughts on last weeks BRM
Here's a bit more information on the results of the BRM last week, and where we go from here. There...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 03/04/2008
BRM is done... time to sleep :-)
Well, the BRM is over and I can only describe the week as a lot of technical work and a lot of great...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 02/29/2008
Big Interoperability Announcement
I'm traveling right now and don't have a lot of time to go really deep on this, but today's...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 02/21/2008
British Library now hosting the Office Binary file format specifications
For folks excited by the availability of the binary file format specs last week, but concerned about...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 02/21/2008
Binary Documentation (.doc, .xls, .ppt) and Translator Project Site are now live
As promised last month, the binary documentation (.doc, .xls, .ppt) is now live. In addition to...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 02/15/2008
Links Feb 8, 2008
A few interesting links today: Burton Group's Response to the ODF Alliance (Part 1) – A great...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 02/08/2008
YouTube video of Open XML on an iPhone
Here's a cool video showing the rich Open XML support available on the iPhone:...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 02/02/2008
Sun’s view of standards
Interesting post from Stephen McGibbon:...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 02/01/2008
Is it jetlag?
I know Rob Weir has been traveling a lot these days lobbying against Open XML across the world, so...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 02/01/2008
Harmonization: Finding the Differences
There have been some discussions over the past several years about the harmonization of Open XML...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 01/31/2008