November, 2011

In an earlier screen-cast, I discussed some utility methods and classes in PowerTools for Open XML that are not specific to Open XML. They are useful to anyone doing functional programming (or even object-oriented programming). In this screen-cast, I...

Many people have come across a problem with an exception being thrown when opening a document with an invalid link. This video shows why that happens and how to eliminate the exception so that the document can be opened using the OpenXML SDK.

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This screen-cast presents a small tip that can make it easier to write code to generate SpreadsheetML. You can avoid the complications of updating the shared string table by using the idea in this tip.

When generating documents, you sometimes will want to create documents with multiple sections, so that you can control page layout separately for each section. In addition, you sometimes will want to create headers and footers for each section. There...

In the process of developing the PowerTools for Open XML, over the years, I have developed some needed core functionality and utility methods, particularly for writing LINQ to XML code that queries and transforms Open XML documents. These utility methods...

I've received a couple of questions recently about bibliographies. I sat down to write a blog post about it, and then realized it would benefit from a screen-cast that explains the markup. The following screen-cast walks through bibliography markup...

Eric and I have created a version of PowerTools that includes only the core code, without the cmdlet code. The C# project also includes several examples of how to use the core code from a C# program. You can get this project from the PowerTools CodePlex...

In document processing parlance, shredding a document is the process of dividing a source document according to certain rules, and creating a number of documents from the source document. This is useful, for instance, when you have a huge document, and...

Several years ago, I was at a Microsoft conference, and was asked by a couple of attendees how to merge comments from multiple Open XML WordprocessingML documents into a single document. Those developers had attempted to write code to do this, and were...