Since it looks like there’s no stopping Open XML , maybe its time to check it out a little deeper. One interesting componet –Open XML includes a component called Open Packaging Conventions (OPC) which defines a way to store application data with related resources in a ZIP file. Obviously, the most likely place you’d find OPC is in Microsoft products and indeed it is already fairly widely used in 2007 Office applications, according to the folks at Microsoft’s MSDN magazine. This tutorial article covers how anyone can take advantage of OPC, and how it can be used to reduce storage needs for apps in the .NET framework.
The down and dirty about a new Microsoft standard
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Aug 1, 20071 min
