Maarten Balliauw

Maarten Balliauw

Loves web and HTTP, C#, Kotlin, Azure and application performance. Developer Advocate at JetBrains. Frequent speaker at and organizer of various community events. Likes brewing his own beer.

OpenXML + Silverlight 2.0 = cool!

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Mix '08 announced some nice things, among them the release of Silverlight 2.0 (beta), ASP.NET MVC framework (CTP 2). This morning, I saw one very cool thing in my RSS reader: TextGlow.

TextGlow is James Newton-King's newest exciting project which basically combines Silverlight 2.0 and OpenXML into a fancy web-based Word 2007 document viewer. Think about combining this with my own Word 2007 document preview handler...

TextGlow Silverlight OpenXML

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