.Net Smoothie » Silverlight http://www.richardbushnell.net Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:42:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Read Word Documents in a Web Browser http://www.richardbushnell.net/2008/03/07/read-word-documents-in-a-web-browser/ http://www.richardbushnell.net/2008/03/07/read-word-documents-in-a-web-browser/#comments Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:33:09 +0000 admin http://richardbushnell.net/index.php/2008/03/07/read-word-documents-in-a-web-browser/

image I love this! Not because of the features, but because of the way it works.

Tim Sneath just blogged about TextGlow – an online Word docx file reader. The docx format is XML, and Silverlight 2 apps can use LINQ-to-XML to parse it and format it for display inside the browser.

Amazing!

You can read more about it on Tim’s blog.

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Now this is exciting. (Well, if you’re a geek.)

Silverlight 2.0 is on its way, and Scott Guthrie has posted 8 tutorials about using it.

I’m off to read them now…

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