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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 for the ECMA-376 specification . These notes will...

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 utility identifies differences in the markup in...

Article by Chhavi Kumar Agrawal, Sonata Software Limited This article explains about line shape and how line properties like color, width, and head/tail etc details of line shape are represented in DrawingML language within drawing part stored in SpreadsheetML document. The line shape inserted on the...

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 a released version of the API quickly (May...

The attached white paper broadly describes how DrawingML is different from Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) in terms of design goals, target audience and the problem areas intended to address. This paper hopes to raise the level of awareness and education of “Why DrawingML cannot be merged with SVG” In...

Article by Sheela E.N, Sonata Software Limited This article explains the DrawingML implementation in Spreadsheet and how a drawing object is stored in SpreadsheetML using DrawingML. When an image/picture is inserted in a Spreadsheet document, DrawingML specifies the location and appearance of drawing...

Article By - Sheela E.N, Sonata Software Limited This article explains the process of changing type of chart in a SpreadsheetML document programmatically using Open XML SDK API. In this article, we will be replacing a bar chart embedded in the excel work sheet to pie chart. We will be loading the pre...

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 of the Ted Pattison Group , and the workshop was...

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 of the topics covered in the Open XML developer...

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 and hands-on labs that cover typical Open XML...

Update: I've updated this paper based on feedback I've received from the community. I'd like to thank those people who have provided support in helping clarify the level of Accessibility in the specification. This report is still in DRAFT form. Again, it is intended to serve as a basis for public comment...

This article is part of the “ Building documents with code snippets ” series. Welcome to yet another installment in the series. Sorry for the small delay, I was busy starting the Open XML Objects project, go ahead and check it out! This time I will show how to add an image to your document. The basic...

Click here to download the WordProcessingML snippets In this upcoming series of articles I'll be explaining various coding scenarios using Open XML. To relieve you of the burden of laboriously copy / pasting code, I will extend the available OpenXml code snippets and provide these new scenarios in that...