June, 2011

The second major release of libOPC – and the first that is broadly feature-complete – was published on CodePlex this week by former Novell developer Florian Reuter.  libOPC is a platform-independent C library that provides read and write access to Open Packaging Conventions (OPC) files, the package format used by Open XML. 

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Last week, the Office Interoperability team updated the Learn Open Specifications and Interoperability page in the Open Specifications Developer Center . This update features the debut of the Open Specifications Interactive Pivot, 9 new learning modules...

On June 20, 2011 (two days ago), I posted an update to DocumentBuilder . After more extensive testing, I found and fixed a few bugs in less common scenarios, including if comments in multiple sources contain images, multiple sources contain endnotes with...

At long last, I have completed and posted a much requested and sorely needed update to DocumentBuilder . DocumentBuilder is code that is part of the PowerTools for Open XML project that handles issues of interrelated markup, enabling you to generate new...

There is a whole lot of content (articles, screen-casts, and blog posts) on Open XML. Over the last couple of months, I have been making a list of as much Open XML content as I can find. I have found and categorized some 380 pieces of content, and organized...

One of the most effective ways to build document generation systems is to enable creation of a template document. Generated documents are a product of the template document and some data or code that replaces certain key portions of the template document...

In Memory of Jim Durkin Jim Durkin was a highly valued member of our team at Microsoft and the owner of Open XML marketing for Microsoft. While a member of the team for a short time, he was instrumental in making some significant strides with Open XML...