Microsoft Research - Domain-specific languages, automatic analysis of programs, software visualization.

Research into distributed systems, hardware, information retrieval and analysis, integrated systems, machine learning, networking, and security. Project information and publications.

Official details about the format, and links to technical information.

Technical specification detailing the language and syntax of the format. From the MSDN library.

Displays an image within the boundaries of the object and between the object background and content, with options to clip or resize the image. When loading a Portable Network Graphics (PNG) image, transparency from zero to 100 percent is supported.

An online workshop regarding the VML specifications and standards. From the Microsoft MSDN Library.

Official site with documentation, editors, and viewers.

Microsoft tutorial, explaining how CDF gives Web authors another way to organize their sites.

Article explaining how character encoding works and specifically how it works in XML and the MSXML DOM.

Microsoft site offering articles, SDKs, reference documentation, downloads, and webcasts about working with XML in MS Office.