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by Lawrence Hodson In this article I have a go at creating an Open XML Document using Microsoft’s excellent PowerShell command-line environment. To do so I use PowerTools for Open XML, recently updated on CodePlex ( http://www.codeplex.com/PowerTools ). As you’ll see it makes an otherwise difficult task...

by Lawrence Hodson (aka Sharky) For Microsoft .NET developers the Open XML SDK v2.0 promises a friendlier API for delving into the new Office document formats. It is built over the System.IO.Packaging API, but adds strongly-typed classes, so I thought I’ve give it a whirl. I’ve not used either API’s...

Displaying Open XML documents in Silverlight with TextGlow By James Newton-King The Office Open XML file format has opened up a new range of possibilities to working with documents. The Microsoft Office 2007 suite of products replaces the old binary formats and produces documents in a parser friendly...

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...