Andy Simonds Blog
Programming XPS Documents: MSDN Article
An article for MSDN magazine written by Bob Watson, a technical writer on our team, went live today-...
Author: Andy Simonds Date: 12/15/2005
D2's home
If you want to see where the D2 team works (the building I am sitting in right now). Check it out...
Author: Andy Simonds Date: 12/09/2005
A few blogs to read...
I was in one of the Microsoft cafeterias earlier this week and saw a guy with a plain black t-shirt...
Author: Andy Simonds Date: 12/09/2005
XPS Five Points of Light – Part 2: Trustworthy
Trustworthy is an integral part of a successful electronic document format. So what do I mean by...
Author: Andy Simonds Date: 12/05/2005
Snow in Seattle
It actually did finally snow in Seattle. Very nice, kids got out of school on Friday (2 inches of...
Author: Andy Simonds Date: 12/05/2005
XPS Five Points of Light - Part1: Open Format
I felt it was overdue to talk about what I see as the ‘all-up’ key values that XPS brings to our...
Author: Andy Simonds Date: 11/30/2005
WPF November CTP is out
The WPF November CTP is available for download. This contains the latest XPS viewer. If you are...
Author: Andy Simonds Date: 11/21/2005
Tim Sneath gives a tour of D2 on Channel 9
Tim Sneath, recently walked the hallways of Building 2 chatting with people on the D2 team about...
Author: Andy Simonds Date: 11/17/2005
New XPS Blog site
A new XPS blog site is up and running: https://blogs.msdn.com/xps/ This is a generic blog where...
Author: Andy Simonds Date: 11/17/2005
Print Management Console in Server 2003 R2
Our team is shipping something very important soon - a new Print Management Console as part of...
Author: Andy Simonds Date: 11/09/2005
Short Update on XPS Printing
We published a white paper on writing print drivers using the XPS filter pipeline. It covers the...
Author: Andy Simonds Date: 11/02/2005
Office and XPS support
It is not necessarily that interesting of a story for Microsoft to talk about how we are using our...
Author: Andy Simonds Date: 10/28/2005
XPS MSDN Forum
I forgot there is an XPS forum up on MSDN. Not a lot of other people seem to know either as there is...
Author: Andy Simonds Date: 10/20/2005
Never a dull moment shipping software
In the last day I’ve: Stared at bug charts/graphs/pivot tables to see how our different feature...
Author: Andy Simonds Date: 10/19/2005
XPS, open, royalty-free, cross platform...really
I just got back from a week in Japan. Thinking back to my trip, I am still surprised at how many...
Author: Andy Simonds Date: 10/18/2005
XPS and Windows Media Photo
Those tracking the XPS specification should have noticed that in v.75 we introduced Windows Media...
Author: Andy Simonds Date: 10/06/2005
XPS and Open Packaging Conventions
I've decided it is way overdue that I start blogging about the amazing work we are doing around...
Author: Andy Simonds Date: 10/05/2005