October, 2011

Eric and I made a number of significant design and organizational changes to PowerTools. This video briefly goes through the technical details of those changes. It will be most useful for people familiar with C# development. It also helps if you know...

This post introduces the second screen-cast in this series on getting started with Open XML development. In this screen-cast, I introduce the three most important tools that you will want to be familiar with: Return to the Table of Contents of this screen...

I have some happy news! Bob McClellan will be joining us as an admin here on OXD – answering questions on the forums, writing blog posts, recording screen-casts, and more. Bob has worked with Open XML for several years. At one point, he wrote an...

This blog post introduces the first in a series of screen-casts that are specifically for a developer starting development with Open XML for the first time. It is a project that I've been meaning to work on for some time, and I recently received the...

The Set-OpenXmlString cmdlet enables interesting functionality - you can do a search-and-replace of content without automating Word, and you can search-and-replace in many documents at once. The Set-OpenXmlString can search-and-replace in both WordprocessingML...

We’re very happy to announce the release of PowerTools for Open XML version 2.2, now available for download at powertools.codeplex.com . There are a number of great features in this new release: Merge-OpenXmlDocument incorporates DocumentBuilder...

Congratulations are due to the OASIS OpenDocument Technical Committee for the approval of OASIS ODF 1.2. As a document format geek, I follow the progress of all document format standards efforts, including ODF, and I’m very happy to see this new...

Using custom XML parts and content controls, we can create smarter documents that provide needed functionality for users. Content controls and custom XML parts enable us to integrate business data with content in a document. In addition, content controls...