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XML Standards in Government

Last month has also featured one of the important national government events for Open Document Standards, namely: XML Standards in Government Workshop ( http://www.dst.gov.za/invite/ ) South African Department of Science and Technology have organised this workshop on June 17 th to 20 th 2008 at Tshwane University. “The purpose of the workshop is to consolidate (and indeed celebrate!) the work done to date on the adoption of XML standards in the public sector and to prepare the strategic direction...
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OpenXML SDK Version Jun08

Once again, I’m glad to be back at blogging after another period of intense work. For those of you that might not know, and are huge/diehard fans of OpenXML last month hailed a new release of the OpenXML SDK ( http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AD0B72FB-4A1D-4C52-BDB5-7DD7E816D046&displaylang=en ). This SDK is constantly being improved and this time it features excellent additional features. Although it was released sometime last month (Version June08) it’s considered to...
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Service Pack 2 for Office 2007 will provide native support for ODF and PDF document format standards

Yet another round goes to Microsoft on the office interop field...... well done guys, you continue to make us (who support you in this) proud. This pretty much sums it up: Also check out a very useful (about to be slightly adjusted) Comparison of office suites from Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_office_suites ) Original post from Lawrence ( http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/05/21/microsoft-office-2007-sp2-to-provide-native-support-for-odf-and-pdf-document-format...
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Merry Christmas and Happy New 2008...My gift is some great SharePoint articles to read over the holidays

First of all Merry Christmas to everyone who reads this blog and happy upcoming New 2008 from me and my family!! (.... I mean my family and me) This blog post is just a selection of awesome recent blog posts from some cool people that will be nice to read if you want to get away for couple of minutes and have some peace during this busy festive season. Posts from Michael Gannotti ( http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/mikeg/ ) Video: Building a Simple "Workflow" Application Without Using...

Structured content authoring using the 2007 Microsoft Office System and XML

One of the lectures I gave at TechEd 2007 - Africa was: Structured content authoring using the 2007 Microsoft Office System and XML. Here where you can download the presentation and the source code used in the session: Presentation ( http://dotnet.org.za/blogs/zlatan/OFC303_-_Structured_Content_Authoring_-_Dzinic.zip ) Source code, snippets, database ( http://dotnet.org.za/blogs/zlatan/structured%20content%20source.zip ) - Done in Visual Studio 2008 C#. OpenXML source code (using OpenXML SDK) ( http...