diff --git a/CSharp/Content/UniversalEditor.Content.PlatformIndependent/Extensions/FileSystem/Associations/Microsoft/WindowsImage.xml b/CSharp/Content/UniversalEditor.Content.PlatformIndependent/Extensions/FileSystem/Associations/Microsoft/WindowsImage.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
+<UniversalEditor Version="4.0">
+	<Associations>
+		<Association>
+			<Filters>
+				<Filter Title="Windows Imaging archive">
+					<FileNameFilters>
+						<FileNameFilter>*.wim</FileNameFilter>
+					</FileNameFilters>
+					<MagicByteSequences>
+						<MagicByteSequence>
+							<MagicByte Type="String">MSWIM</MagicByte>
+						</MagicByteSequence>
+					</MagicByteSequences>
+				</Filter>
+			</Filters>
+			<ObjectModels>
+				<ObjectModel TypeName="UniversalEditor.ObjectModels.FileSystem.FileSystemObjectModel" />
+			</ObjectModels>
+			<DataFormats>
+				<DataFormat TypeName="UniversalEditor.DataFormats.FileSystem.Microsoft.WindowsImage.WIMDataFormat" />
+			</DataFormats>
+		</Association>
+	</Associations>
+</UniversalEditor>
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diff --git a/CSharp/Plugins/UniversalEditor.Plugins.Microsoft/DataFormats/FileSystem/Microsoft/WindowsImage/WIMDataFormat.cs b/CSharp/Plugins/UniversalEditor.Plugins.Microsoft/DataFormats/FileSystem/Microsoft/WindowsImage/WIMDataFormat.cs
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+++ b/CSharp/Plugins/UniversalEditor.Plugins.Microsoft/DataFormats/FileSystem/Microsoft/WindowsImage/WIMDataFormat.cs
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+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Linq;
+using UniversalEditor.IO;
+using UniversalEditor.ObjectModels.FileSystem;
+
+namespace UniversalEditor.DataFormats.FileSystem.Microsoft.WindowsImage
+{
+	public class WIMDataFormat : DataFormat
+	{
+		private static DataFormatReference _dfr = null;
+		protected override DataFormatReference MakeReferenceInternal()
+		{
+			if (_dfr == null)
+			{
+				_dfr = base.MakeReferenceInternal();
+				_dfr.Capabilities.Add(typeof(FileSystemObjectModel), DataFormatCapabilities.All);
+			}
+			return _dfr;
+		}
+
+		protected override void LoadInternal(ref ObjectModel objectModel)
+		{
+			FileSystemObjectModel fsom = (objectModel as FileSystemObjectModel);
+			if (fsom == null) throw new ObjectModelNotSupportedException();
+
+			Reader reader = base.Accessor.Reader;
+			string magic = reader.ReadFixedLengthString(8);
+			if (magic != "MSWIM\0\0\0") throw new InvalidDataFormatException("File does not begin with 'MSWIM', 0x00, 0x00, 0x00");
+
+			uint offsetToFirstDataBlock = reader.ReadUInt32();
+
+			uint unknown2 = reader.ReadUInt32();
+			uint unknown3 = reader.ReadUInt32();
+			uint unknown4 = reader.ReadUInt32();
+
+			Guid guid = reader.ReadGuid();
+			ushort unknown5a = reader.ReadUInt16();
+			ushort unknown5b = reader.ReadUInt16();
+			uint unknown6 = reader.ReadUInt32();
+			uint unknown7 = reader.ReadUInt32();
+			uint unknown8 = reader.ReadUInt32();
+			uint unknown9 = reader.ReadUInt32();
+			uint unknown10 = reader.ReadUInt32();
+			uint unknown11 = reader.ReadUInt32();
+			uint unknown12 = reader.ReadUInt32();
+			uint unknown13 = reader.ReadUInt32();
+			uint unknown14 = reader.ReadUInt32();
+
+			ulong xmlDataOffset = reader.ReadUInt64();
+			ulong xmlDataLength = reader.ReadUInt64();
+
+
+
+			// file record
+			{
+				// 20 byte guid???
+				Guid fileGuid = reader.ReadGuid();
+				uint fileGuid2 = reader.ReadUInt32();
+
+				ulong unknownB1 = reader.ReadUInt64();
+				ulong unknownB2 = reader.ReadUInt64();
+				ushort fileNameLength = reader.ReadUInt16();
+				string fileName = reader.ReadFixedLengthString(fileNameLength, Encoding.UTF16LittleEndian);
+			}
+
+			// file data mapping record
+			{
+				uint unknownZ1 = reader.ReadUInt32();
+
+				ulong fileLength1 = reader.ReadUInt64();		// maybe compressed/uncompressed length?
+				ulong fileOffset = reader.ReadUInt64();
+				ulong fileLength = reader.ReadUInt64();
+
+				Guid fileGuid = reader.ReadGuid();
+				uint fileGuid2 = reader.ReadUInt32();
+			}
+		}
+
+		protected override void SaveInternal(ObjectModel objectModel)
+		{
+			FileSystemObjectModel fsom = (objectModel as FileSystemObjectModel);
+			if (fsom == null) throw new ObjectModelNotSupportedException();
+
+			Writer writer = base.Accessor.Writer;
+			writer.WriteFixedLengthString("MSWIM", 8);
+
+			throw new NotImplementedException();
+		}
+	}
+}