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The question sometimes arises: why do we need Open XML? In my own words, in the following screen-cast, I identify the seven key reasons why Open XML is an important technology. As I discuss each of the seven reasons, I demonstrate in some fashion or another the actual technical or business benefit that...

This is the third in a series of screen-casts on getting started with Open XML development. In this screen-cast, I discuss the three most common scenarios around OpenXML WordprocessingML. Return to the Table of Contents of this screen-cast series.

Sometimes developers need to create huge spreadsheets, perhaps with 100's of thousands of rows, and many columns. A worksheet that contains 1,000,000 rows and 10 columns will contain upwards of 20,000,000 nodes in the worksheet part. This presents a problem when using a DOM approach. Both XmlDocument...

This is the second in a 2-part screen-cast series on controlling vertical spacing in an Open XML WordprocessingML document. When generating word-processing documents, you sometimes want to control vertical spacing very explicitly. You may want to control how much space there is between lines in a paragraph...

I've recorded a 2-part screen-cast series on controlling vertical spacing in an Open XML WordprocessingML document. When generating word-processing documents, you sometimes want to control vertical spacing very explicitly. You may want to control how much space there is between lines in a paragraph...

This is a fun little project that I needed to do to help out a customer. The customer needed to select a specific subset of paragraphs in a WordprocessingML document based on certain search criteria, and then display the subset in a form (in a Windows Forms application). As it turns out, it was pretty...

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. Bibliographies use custom XML parts, so in addition...

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 you want to divide it into multiple documents to...

A question was recently posed to me - what is the best way to look at markup and the rendering of the markup simultaneously. This is important, for instance, when you are experimenting with markup and determining the exact markup that you want to generate. My favorite way to work with this is to use...