Press "Enter" to open the Visual Studio software. Open your Web project. Double-click the VB code file you use to set up the XML data.

Splitting the XML file is a nasty performance optimization that should wait until it is the last option AND it is proven to actually increase performance. A spike to test it out is valuable here.

Asked what impact the ISO status would give Open XML, standards expert Jan van den Beld who now works for the pro-Microsoft industry group CompTIA, said "not much at the very moment." ...

Microsoft's plan to add support for ODF to its Office 2007 suite next year reflects continued challenges for the software vendor's own Office Open XML file format.

Microsoft originally submitted the Open XML file formats to standards organization Ecma International in 2005. Ecma then proposed the specification to ISO in its Fast Track process, which many ...