Open Packaging Convention

You may have seen that the implementer notes for Office 2007 SP2 for ECMA-376 and ODF1.1 are now available. ECMA-376 Implementer Notes for Office 2007 SP2 On the ECMA-376 Implementer Notes Site you will find detailed information about Office’s support...

Open XML SDK V2. The first CTP of V2 of the Open XML SDK is now available for download. This release includes a high-level DOM (document object model) for Open XML development, as well as several tools to streamline Open XML development: The OpenXmlDiff...

The Open XML Power Tools, an open source project on Codeplex to create PowerShell cmdlets for automating Open XML document management tasks, has been released on Codeplex at http://www.codeplex.com/PowerTools . Non-developers can use these cmdlets to...

Microsoft announced this week the release of Version 1 of the Open XML Formats SDK, an API that allows .NET developers to read, write, and modify Open XML documents. Follow these links to download the API or get more information: Open XML Formats SDK...

Article by Sheela E.N, Sonata Software Limited This article explains about changes made in Open XML SDK April 2008 CTP compared to Open XML SDK June 2007 CTP Open XML SDK provides a set of strongly typed classes to create and consume Office Open XML based...

Microsoft unveiled today the roadmap for the Open XML SDK that was released last June as a CTP (Community Technology Preview) version. After collecting developer feedback through the CTP release, they've put together a two-phased release plan to get developers...

Article by Mallika Biswas, Sonata Software Limited This article explains how to delete footnotes and endnotes from an existing word document using System.IO.Packaging API in C# project. Steps to be followed: 1. Create a new C# project. Go to references...

Open XML to Daisy translator (Office Open XML WordProcessingML document to Daisy DTBook document) V1 Alpha is now available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/openxml-daisy/ for download. This release has covered 13 important features of Daisy. To know...

Sonata Software Limited based out of Bangalooru, India, in collaboration with Microsoft and the Daisy Consortium, is developing an open source converter to convert Word documents to Daisy DTBook documents. Please find the press release of the same at...

Article by Sheela E.N, Sonata Software Limited This article explains about Digital Signature and how Digital Signature details are stored in Open XML file format in WordProcessingML. When a document needs to be sent electronically, there should be techniques...

Article by - Sheela E.N, Sonata Software Limited The XML mapping feature enables us to add arbitrary XML data structures and XML schema definitions to the workbook and map XML nodes to cells and cell ranges in the workbook. Once the mapping is set up...

MSDN has published a comprehensive set of videos of a 2-day Open XML developer workshop . These videos cover the content that was posted on OpenXMLDeveloper recently here . The instructors for this workshop were Doug Mahugh of Microsoft and Chris Predeek...

This article has upated versions of the simple sample Open XML documents that were posted in March 2006. The latest versions attached here were created with the shipping version of the 2007 Microsoft Office system as of August 2007.

Attached is a downloadable copy of "Open XML Explained" by Wouter Van Vugt, the first book on Open XML development. The sample documents for the book are also available for download here . This 128-page book covers the basics of Open XML, including many...

During the first half of 2007, trainers from Microsoft, Sonata, InfoSupport, Allette, Predeek Consulting and others delivered Open XML developer workshops in over 30 countries. These workshops were all structured around a set of inter-related presentations...

Article by - Sheela E.N, Sonata Software Limited Macro-enabled files (.docm) have the same file format as macro-free files (.docx), but contain additional parts that macro-free files do not. The Open XML format stores the various components of the document...

(Updated to v2) Greetings, Due to my work as an ISV DE in MS, I had just recently been requested by an organisation to produce a small demo to demonstrate how the new custom xml parts could help them deal with an issue that is causing them trouble. More...

Several of the most active contributors to OpenXmlDeveloper were in Redmond last week for the MVP Summit and an Open XML workshop, so Doug Mahugh interviewed them on some Open XML development topics. The videos are up on Channel 9 at the links included...

Using the Packaging API and Office Open XML to create Excel 2007 files on the server by Dr. John Tunnicliffe Introduction The adoption of XML as the native file format for Excel 2007 has opened up a whole host of new possibilities. Now for the first time...

Microsoft's Visual Studio code snippets for the System.IO.Packaging API have been updated for the final versions of the Office Open XML schemas and the RTM versions of Office and the .NET 3.0 Framework. The snippets are available in both C# and Visual...

This article explains how a generic xml file (generated from a Spreadsheet ML document) can be converted to HTML table that could be displayed in a browser, using XSLT by Muthukumar Arjunan of Sonata Software Ltd. This article caters to all those who are interested in learning how to convert XML to HTML table....

Article by: Sharad Bajaj Introduction The new Office Open XML file formats are the default formats for Word 2007, Excel 2007, and PowerPoint 2007. As users create documents with these new formats, and convert existing documents to the new formats, there...

If you're working on Open XML solutions that use Word 2007 content controls and bind them to nodes in your custom XML data part, then you need this tool. It provides a simple graphical view of the content controls and custom XML nodes in a document, and...

Another perspective on Java development for Open XML, by Julien Chable. Based on articles originally posted in French on MSDN/France....

reads the data from table in database and displays it in a single sheet in spread sheet, using .NET 3.0 System.IO.Packaging API....