August, 2006

The 2007 Microsoft Office system will use the Open XML file formats as their default format, and Microsoft has started to publish white papers, code samples, and other Open XML content for developers. The following is an overview of some of the Open XML...

The Ecma TC45 working group has released an updated version of the draft spec. You can download it here , as a set of five documents in either PDF or DOCX format. There is also some information about this latest revision of the working draft on Brian...

The new ODF to Open XML Translator Project has been getting a lot of attention lately. This is a collaborative project to build add-ins for Office 2007 that can read and write ODF (Open Document Format) documents. The first component is a Word add-in...

Article by: MuthuKumar Arjunan and Vijayeta of Sonata Software Ltd. This article explores the interoperable potential of the Open XML file formats. We will show how a simple browser on any client machine can create a PresentationML document (PPTX) on...

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...

This article is part of the " Building documents with code snippets " series. After talking about how basic tables are represented in WordProcessingML, it is time to handle the corresponding snippets. There are various snippets which I’ll handle in corresponding...

Author: Vijayeta Tilak, Sonata Software Limited This article describes how a footer or header can be programmatically added to a word document from a .NET application using the System.IO.Packaging API. A WordprocessingML document may contain a part named...

Article by: Vijayeta.t of SONATA SOFTWARE LIMITED This article explains how to fetch data from a database and use that data to create a PresentationML document. Each slide in the presentation consists of a heading and a subtitle, and the data for these...

Article By : Vijayeta.t of SONATA SOFTWARE LIMITED The objective of this article is to create an OpenXML PresentationML using the .NET 3.0 System.IO.Packaging API. The user is provided with a GUI to enter the text which would appear in slides. The UI...

****UPDATED 12 JUNE 2009**** The Ecma TC45 technical committee has shared some presentations with us that cover the basics of PresentationML. PresentationML is an area that very few people have delved into yet, as opposed to WordprocessingML and SpreadsheetML...