May, 2006

Contributed by: Wouter van Vugt of Info Support . Wouter is responsible for development and support of a .NET training curriculum with an emphasis on C#, ASP.NET and Office development. The Package Explorer utility provides the ability to open an Open...

Beta 2 of the 2007 Microsoft Office System was released on May 23. This is a public beta, meaning anyone can download a copy. Now any developer can get their hands on software that generates and consumes Office Open XML documents. You can sign up to download...

LASTEST VERSION OF THE CUSTOM UI EDITOR - updated to work with the RTM build of Office 2007 and Beta build of Office 2010 - ATTACHED TO THIS POST The 2007 Microsoft Office System has an all-new "ribbon" interface which developers can customize in many...

Author: Sanjay Kumar Madhva of Sonata Software Limited Introduction In the previous article “Creating an Open XML Document in .NET” we demonstrated how to create a word document using .NET, where we created the document.xml which looked as shown below...

Ecma has published an updated draft of the spec for the Office Open XML Formats Standard. Here's a link to it: http://www.ecma-international.org/news/TC45_current_work/TC45-2006-50.htm This is great news for Open XML developers. The updated draft has...

John Greer, Open XML Developer Group member, has contributed two more complex sample documents: a Word 2007 document that exercises various formatting options, and the full text of Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland,” with illustrations. These documents provide typical examples of the Open XML file formats in action.  Each is provided in DOC and DOCX format....