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By Martin Holman This tutorial will show how to access and display the Dublin Core properties of any OpenXML document. This could quite easily be extended to access any other sections of the OpenXML format. Right let’s get started! Fire up XCode. Create a window-based iPhone application as shown Here...

This article will show you how to programmatically merge PowerPoint 2010 presentations into one using Open XML, Open XML SDK 2 and Visual Studio 2010. We have 3 PowerPoint 2010 presentations containing a calendar for each year from year 2011 to 2013 respectively. We’re going to merge them in to one presentation...

Windows Phone 7 is the new mobile platform from Microsoft. Windows Phone 7 offers developers the ability to create custom applications using a built in Silverlight runtime that ships with the phone. In this article we are going to examine how to generate Office Open XML on the Windows Phone by porting...

By Jay Macilquham This article will show you using a console application how to programmatically insert content controls into a word document to create a basic form which when filled out and saved will save the content to the Open XML custom XML part. Saving the form data inside the custom XML part instead...

by James Newton-King DrawingML is the graphics markup language used in Office Open XML documents. Unlike the standalone WordprocessingML and PresentationML languages which represent docx and pptx documents, DrawingML is always embedded inside another mark-up language as content. DrawingML is used throughout...

Interview by Ryan Harte: April 4, 2010 http://www.phpdocx.com/ and http://www.javadocx.com What is the coolest implementation of Open XML you have seen? I am not really familiar with all the developments in this relatively new field. We have started to work with Open XML not so long ago. We needed to...

Background Here is a simple WordPress plugin that extrapolates a set of data from Piwik – which is an open source real time web analytics application and updates a pivot table in an Excel document. The plugin captures the user's Piwik API key and displays a link to an excel document on a custom dashboard...

Interview by Chris Auld: March 9, 2010 Doug Mahugh is the Lead Standards Professional on the Office Interoperability team at Microsoft. http://blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh/ In this interview, Chris Auld from Microsoft Partner Intergen and Locum Jobs Agency Medrecruit talks to Doug about topics such as the...

By Chris Klug A while back I wrote an article for OpenXMLDeveloper.org, outlining how one could use Open XML to create word processing documents from Silverlight. I personally found this a great way to get information from an application to the user in a format that could be stored locally and perhaps...

In the last 3 months I have got a request to create a solution that can add Tweets to a PowerPoint presentation on the fly. Basically the presenter wants to have a slide at the end of the presentation that displays X amount of Tweets with a specific tag. That way, the Q&A section at the end of the...

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...

To celebrate the RTM release of the Open XML SDK 2.0 we’re launching a bunch of new content here at Open XML Developer. This article provides our brief history of the Open XML SDK 2.0 and provides useful links to content here at Open XML Developer. Introduction The Open XML file formats are a set of...

Interview by Ryan Harte: February 24, 2010 Eric White is a Technical Writer for Microsoft who focuses on SharePoint, Office, and Open XML. http://blogs.msdn.com/ericwhite/default.aspx In this interview we talk to Eric about topics such as the synergies between functional programming and Open XML, aswell...

Interview by Ryan Harte: February 19, 2010 Chris Klug is a .net developer from Sweden and is currently focused on the development of Silverlight applications. http://chris.59north.com/ In this interview we talk to Chris about his discovery of Open XML, how it can benefit Silverlight developers, and the...

By Chris Klug I have spent a lot of time working with Silverlight applications lately and I am pretty sure that the interest for the technology will not shrink, but instead grow. Clients have realized that good looks are important and Silverlight offers a lot more esthetical freedom than HTML. Developers...

Background More and more companies are going green these days, for one reason or another. Telecommunication companies are no exception and phone bills are a great starting point for them. Instead of graciously inking carbon on the glossy sheets of paper produced from the fine Canadian pine trees, some...

By Tim Coulter When I first discovered the Open XML SDK 2.0 , I was thrilled by its elegance and power. My goal was to create a simple application that would periodically generate a new version of a standard spreadsheet, using the latest data from a database. This seemed like a fairly typical challenge...

By Eduardo Ramos http://www.phpdocx.com The Spanish National Research Council asked if we could generate some dynamic reports from the data gathered for its 2009 Action Plan. These reports had to be generated both in PDF and Word format because they require editable reports that could be suitably modified...

By Jian Sun Introduction – Scenario Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office is built on top of System.IO.Packaging API and provides strongly typed part classes to manipulate Open XML documents. The SDK also uses the .NET Framework Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) technology to provide strongly typed object...

Interview by Philip Plimmer: November 10, 2009 Interview with Johann Granados the creator of Open XML PowerTools on all things Open XML, his interests and Costa Rica! http://blogs.staffdotnet.com/johanngranados/blog/ What is the coolest implementation of Open XML that you have seen? We are developers...

By Lawrence Hodson Introduction The Open XML SDK v2.0 provides an API to Microsoft .NET developers for automating the new Office document formats (docx, xlsx etc...). Until now, I used it for manipulating Word documents. For this sample I wanted to attempt producing Excel documents using the SDK &...

By Johannes Prinz Introduction In my life as a developer I’ve implemented many different flavours of Mail Merge style applications which can be run on a server without having to install any word processing clients. This has ranged from simple email auto responders, using customizable email templates...

被采访人 : 邹宇峰 采访日期： 2009-07-17 采访人 : 孙健 Sun: 我是代表我的同事从 www.openxmldeveloper.org 来做一个简单的采访，问几个很简单的问题。最终我的同事会把这段录音和我们采访内容的文稿放到网站上去。能简单介绍一下你自己吗？ Xiaoyu: 我姓邹，我住在成都，叫我小宇就可以了。 Sun: 小宇，你觉得最酷的 Open XML 的应用上的实施有那一些？ Xiaoyu: 这个问题有点宽泛 … 我觉得是文档格式的开放吧。打开 zip 就可以直接去分析它和了解它的细节，我觉得这个是比较酷的事情。因为以前 word 的格式就比较复杂，包括以前开放的文件格式...

Interview by Jian Sun, July 17, 2009 Xiaoyu is a content developer for the www.openxmldeveloper.org site and is based in China. In this interview he talks about his experiences with Open XML and the www.openxmldeveloper.org site. Hi, my name is Jian Sun. I’m originally from Qingdao, China. On behalf...

Interview by Darcy Thomas: July 30, 2009 Maarten Balliauw is a MVP ASP.NET and is a .NET Software Engineer at RealDolmen. His interests are mainly in web applications development in ASP.NET (C#) or PHP. In this interview he discusses his experiences working with PHPExcel and Open XML. What is the coolest...