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....

Article submitted by: Robert Orleth, Microsoft MOSS (Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server) has a feature that lets you convert OpenXML files to web pages, all you need to to is select “Convert Document” from the dropdown when you look at a document library...

November 10, 2006. Several sessions on Open XML development were presentated at the Microsoft TechEd conference in Barcelona this week. The photo here shows Peter Koen's Thursday session on Open XML architecture. This week's announcements of the 2007...

Article submitted by: Stéphane Rodriguez This article is a tutorial for working with parts as defined by the Open Packaging Conventions (part 2 in particular). The intention is not to provide the reader with plug-and-play code, but instead to provide...

November 8, 2006 -- the .NET 3.0 framework redistributable has been released by Microsoft, and you can download it here . This means it's now possible to distribute your applications that use the new System.IO.Packaging API to read and write Open XML...

Ecma International has published a whitepaper that explains the basics of Office Open XML as well as some of the thinking behind the format. It's a great overview for those who are new to the Open XML file formats. Brian Jones's blog has some additional...

If you're doing much Open XML development, you probably sometimes need to compare two versions of a document and look closely at the differences. Stephane Rodriguez's diffopc tool is a utility program that makes short work of this sort of a task. Diffopc...

The Spreadsheet ML document is transformed into a generic xml file format using XSL transformation. This generic xml file format is used as a data source for data grid through which the data contained in the spreadsheet ML is shown in browser. ...

Trondheim, Norway, 09/28/06. At the latest meeting of the Ecma TC45 technical committee , the final draft of the Office Open XML specification was approved as ready for submission to the Ecma General Assembly. The General Assembly will review the spec...

This article on Bookmark helps in understanding the basics of bookmark , it’s representation in openXml and explains how to programmatically iterate through bookmarks in a Word document, to view the bookmarked text and to create new documents based on the bookmark selected, using System.IO.Packaging API and ASP.NET application. ...

By Vijayeta Tilak of Sonata Software Limited This Article is all about exploring one of the features of a presentation document, Animation, using System.IO.Packaging API and ASP.NET A presentation document can be animated by making changes in the contents...

Per Brian Jones , the XSDs are now available from Ecma for working draft 1.4 of the Office Open XML Formats spec. You can download a ZIP file here , which contains all of them in one package.