April, 2009

Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack Service Pack 2 (SP2) gives customers the latest updates to the Office Compatibility Pack for the Microsoft Office Word 2007 Open XML file format, for the Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Open XML file format, and for the...

PowerTools for Open XML v1.1.1 source code is now available. PowerTools for Open XML is an open source project on CodePlex that enables creation and processing of Open XML documents using PowerShell. This is a minor release that addresses four issues...

The US vote to adopt Open XML - IS29500 - as an American National Standard closed on evening of Wednesday 15 April. As as result Open XML IS29500 is the newest American National Standard. The vote was a 12 yes / 0 no / 2 abstain / 4 not yet split. Full...

April 2009 Open XML SDK 2.0 CTP permits Open XML documents to be validated in addition to the manipulation of the Open XML document content released in earlier CTP. The validation support is designed to help reduce the possibility of invalid or corrupt...

In this article Lawrence Hodson demonstrates how, using Powertools for Open XML and Powershell, it is possible to create a simple SLA report. The script conditionally assembles a an SLA or system status report document based on on live WMI (Windows Management...

by Lawrence Hodson In this article I have a go at creating an Open XML Document using Microsoft’s excellent PowerShell command-line environment. To do so I use PowerTools for Open XML, recently updated on CodePlex ( http://www.codeplex.com/PowerTools...

by Lawrence Hodson (aka Sharky) For Microsoft .NET developers the Open XML SDK v2.0 promises a friendlier API for delving into the new Office document formats. It is built over the System.IO.Packaging API, but adds strongly-typed classes, so I thought...