OpenXML Developer : DrawingML

ECMA-376 and ODF1.1 Implementer notes for Office 2007 SP2 released

You may have seen that the implementer notes for Office 2007 SP2 for ECMA-376 and ODF1.1 are now available. ECMA-376 Implementer Notes for Office 2007 SP2 On the ECMA-376 Implementer Notes Site you will find detailed information ... [Read More]

Posted: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 2:23 PM by jenw | 0 Comments [Edit]
Filed Under: Open Packaging Convention, WordProcessingML, SpreadsheetML, PresentationML, .NET (C#, VB, J#, C++/CLI), DrawingML

Open XML SDK V2 CTP available

Open XML SDK V2. The first CTP of V2 of the Open XML SDK is now available for download. This release includes a high-level DOM (document object model) for Open XML development, as well as several tools to streamline Open XML development: The OpenXmlDiff ... [Read More]

Posted: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 3:27 PM by ecullins | 0 Comments [Edit]
Filed Under: Open Packaging Convention, WordProcessingML, SpreadsheetML, PresentationML, .NET (C#, VB, J#, C++/CLI), DrawingML

Line shape details in SpreadsheetML documents

Article by Chhavi Kumar Agrawal, Sonata Software Limited This article explains about line shape and how line properties like color, width, and head/tail etc details of line shape are represented in DrawingML language within drawing part stored in SpreadsheetML ... [Read More]

Posted: Monday, April 28, 2008 3:23 AM by Sheela E N | 0 Comments [Edit]
Filed Under: SpreadsheetML, DrawingML

Microsoft announces Open XML SDK roadmap

Microsoft unveiled today the roadmap for the Open XML SDK that was released last June as a CTP (Community Technology Preview) version. After collecting developer feedback through the CTP release, they've put together a two-phased release plan to get developers ... [Read More]

Posted: Thursday, March 13, 2008 4:08 PM by dmahugh | 2 Comments [Edit]
Filed Under: Open Packaging Convention, WordProcessingML, SpreadsheetML, PresentationML, .NET (C#, VB, J#, C++/CLI), DrawingML

Technical Analysis between DrawingML and Scalable Vector Graphics(SVG)

The attached white paper broadly describes how DrawingML is different from Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) in terms of design goals, target audience and the problem areas intended to address. This paper hopes to raise the level of awareness ... [Read More]

Posted: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 6:40 AM by Sheela E N | 1 Comments [Edit]
Filed Under: WordProcessingML, SpreadsheetML, PresentationML, DrawingML
Attachment(s): Technical Analysis between DrawingML and SVG.zip

DrawingML implementation for Image/Picture in SpreadsheetML

Article by Sheela E.N, Sonata Software Limited This article explains the DrawingML implementation in Spreadsheet and how a drawing object is stored in SpreadsheetML using DrawingML. When an image/picture is inserted in a Spreadsheet document, ... [Read More]

Posted: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 2:25 AM by SanjayKumarM | 0 Comments [Edit]
Filed Under: SpreadsheetML, DrawingML

Changing chart type in a SpreadsheetML document

Article By - Sheela E.N, Sonata Software Limited This article explains the process of changing type of chart in a SpreadsheetML document programmatically using Open XML SDK API. In this article, we will be replacing a bar chart embedded ... [Read More]

Posted: Friday, September 28, 2007 8:00 AM by SanjayKumarM | 0 Comments [Edit]
Filed Under: SpreadsheetML, .NET (C#, VB, J#, C++/CLI), DrawingML
Attachment(s): ExcelChartTypeSDKDemo.zip

Developer workshop videos

MSDN has published a comprehensive set of videos of a 2-day Open XML developer workshop. These videos cover the content that was posted on OpenXMLDeveloper recently here. The instructors for this workshop were Doug Mahugh of Microsoft and Chris Predeek ... [Read More]

Posted: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 12:04 PM by dmahugh | 1 Comments [Edit]
Filed Under: Open Packaging Convention, WordProcessingML, SpreadsheetML, PresentationML, .NET (C#, VB, J#, C++/CLI), DrawingML

sample Open XML documents - final

This article has upated versions of the simple sample Open XML documents that were posted in March 2006. The latest versions attached here were created with the shipping version of the 2007 Microsoft Office system as of August 2007. ... [Read More]

Posted: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 12:53 AM by dmahugh | 0 Comments [Edit]
Filed Under: Open Packaging Convention, WordProcessingML, SpreadsheetML, PresentationML, DrawingML
Attachment(s): samples-Final.zip

Open XML Explained e-book

Attached is a downloadable copy of "Open XML Explained" by Wouter Van Vugt, the first book on Open XML development. The sample documents for the book are also available for download here. This 128-page book covers the basics of Open XML, including many ... [Read More]

Posted: Monday, August 13, 2007 6:07 PM by dmahugh | 2 Comments [Edit]
Filed Under: Open Packaging Convention, WordProcessingML, SpreadsheetML, PresentationML, DrawingML
Attachment(s): Open XML Explained.pdf

Open XML Developer Workshop content

During the first half of 2007, trainers from Microsoft, Sonata, InfoSupport, Allette, Predeek Consulting and others delivered Open XML developer workshops in over 30 countries. These workshops were all structured around a set of inter-related ... [Read More]

Posted: Thursday, August 09, 2007 5:29 PM by dmahugh | 1 Comments [Edit]
Filed Under: Open Packaging Convention, WordProcessingML, SpreadsheetML, PresentationML, C/C++ (native), .NET (C#, VB, J#, C++/CLI), Java, DrawingML

UPDATED: Accessibility of Open XML

Open XML Formats support accessibility in a number of ways. In explaining this support to its customers, partners and assistive technology vendors, Microsoft has created a preliminary draft report describing how Open XML compares to W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and W3C XML Accessibility guidelines. ... [Read More]

Posted: Monday, July 02, 2007 9:37 AM by Gray_Knowlton | 0 Comments [Edit]
Filed Under: WordProcessingML, SpreadsheetML, PresentationML, Other, DrawingML
Attachment(s): V1.01 - Accessibility of Ecma Office Open XML File Formats.zip

WordProcessingML Snippets: Part 5, Files and Images

This article is part of the “Building documents with code snippets” series. Welcome to yet another installment in the series. Sorry for the small delay, I was busy starting the Open XML Objects project, go ahead and check it out! This time I will show ... [Read More]

Posted: Saturday, August 05, 2006 1:22 PM by Wouterv | 0 Comments [Edit]
Filed Under: WordProcessingML, .NET (C#, VB, J#, C++/CLI), DrawingML

Building Open XML documents with code snippets

Click here to download the WordProcessingML snippets In this upcoming series of articles I'll be explaining various coding scenarios using Open XML. To relieve you of the burden of laboriously copy / pasting code, I will extend the available OpenXml ... [Read More]

Posted: Friday, July 21, 2006 12:46 PM by Wouterv | 0 Comments [Edit]
Filed Under: Open Packaging Convention, WordProcessingML, SpreadsheetML, PresentationML, DrawingML
Attachment(s): Open Xml Snippets Installer.zip

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