OpenXML Developer

Updated version of the Custom UI Editor Tool

ryanh — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:45:00 GMT

Office 2010 introduced a new Custom UI XML Schema to support the extensibility of new features. This updated version of the Custom UI Editor Tool adds support to the latest version of this schema. Also, it adds a basic Undo/Redo functionality and it fixes some of the reported issues of the previous version. Some useful resources related with this update: Backstage View extensibility, check out this technical article. Context Menus extensibility, check this technical article....(read more)

Working with Open XML in PHP

ryanh — Wed, 26 May 2010 15:13:00 GMT

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 update a pivot table in an excel document. The plugin captures the users Piwik API key and display a link to an excel document on a custom dashboard widget. To read the full article click here....(read more)

Interview: Eduardo Ramos - PHP and Docx conversion

ryanh — Thu, 20 May 2010 22:26:00 GMT

Read the full interview click here. Eduardo Ramos works with 2MDC who brought to you the PHPDocX product. In this interview we talk to Eduardo about PHP and DocX conversion and how this a project requirement became a product....(read more)

New Library Article: Adding Tweets to a PowerPoint presentation at runtime

ryanh — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:52:00 GMT

This article will show you how to build an add-in to PowerPoint that will look at every slide that is shown, and if the slide has been tagged with a Twitter tag, it will insert the latest Tweets in it. Actually, it won’t, but it will look like that. What actually happens is that the add-in copies the current slide into a new temporary slideshow and saves it to disk. It then calls on a class called Twitterizer that will get the latest Tweets and then use the Open XML SDK to add the tweets...(read more)

Interview: Doug Mahugh - Open XML Extensibility

ryanh — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:05:00 GMT

Read the full interview click here. To listen to the full interview click here. Doug Mahugh is the Lead Standards Professional on the Office Interoperability team at Microsoft. In this interview, Chris Auld from Microsoft Partner Intergen and Locum Jobs Agency Medrecruit talks to Doug about topics such as the Open XML SDK 2.0, international standards, and Mark-up Compatability and Extensibility. PR: wait... I: wait... L: wait... LD: wait... I: wait...wait... Rank:...(read more)

Spreadsheet creation in Silverlight

ryanh — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:25:00 GMT

The goal with this article is, as I mentioned before, to create a relatively simple spreadsheet implementation based on the Ag.OpenXML library off Codeplex. It will result in an application that can create a spreadsheet document with a table and a formula based cell. To see the entire article click here....(read more)

Open XML Developer Workshop updated with Open XML SDK 2.0 content and new Hands-on-Lab

ryanh — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:55:00 GMT

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 development scenarios. Those presentations and hands-on labs (as well as all supporting content, such as demo files) are now available for free download from OpenXMLDeveloper.org at the...(read more)

Introducing the Open XML SDK 2.0

ryanh — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:48:00 GMT

Microsoft has released an RTM version of Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office today. The SDK is a collection of classes that let developers create and manipulate Open XML documents – documents that adhere to the Office Open XML File Formats Standard. Because the SDK provides an application program interface that lets developers manipulate Open XML documents directly, they can do so without the need for the Office client products themselves in both client and server operating environments. ...(read more)

Interview with Zeyad Rajabi

ryanh — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:37:00 GMT

Zeyad Rajabi on Open XML SDK 2.0 launch. Video is available here....(read more)

Interview: Eric White - WordprocessingML to HTML Conversion

ryanh — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:57:00 GMT

Read the full interview with Eric White here. Eric White is a Technical Writer for Microsoft who focuses on SharePoint, Office, and Open XML. In this interview we talk to Eric about topics such as the synergies between functional programming and Open XML, aswell as the transformation of Open XML documents into other forms. ...(read more)

Interview: Chris Klug - Silverlight and Open XML

ryanh — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:48:00 GMT

Read the full interview with Chris Klug here. Chris Klug is a .net developer from Sweden and is currently focused on the development of Silverlight applications. In this interview we talk to Chris about his discovery of Open XML, how it can benefit Silverlight developers, and the library he has built to integrate Silverlight and Office....(read more)

Working with Open XML in Silverlight

ryanh — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:43:00 GMT

As the Open XML SDK is not available for Silverlight developers, Chris Klug set out to create a tiny library with few pre-built features that was flexible and easy to modify and extend. This sample aims to show how to use this library to create Word documents as well as how to extend it to support new features. It will also show how the existing library can create simple Word documents with text and styles, as well as how you can add support for features that...(read more)

ExtremeML Pivot Table

ryanh — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:28:00 GMT

ExtremeML is an open source project founded by Tim Coulter and hosted on Codeplex.com. It is an extension library to Open XML SDK that allows document content to be created and maintained in a more intuitive manner, relieving developers of the burden of complying with the semantic rules of Open XML. In this sample application we will demonstrate how easy it is to use ExtremeML to write data to a spreadsheet. To view the article click here....(read more)

New Open XML videos - Java API and Package Explorer

ryanh — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:05:00 GMT

There are two new Open XML videos available. To view them click the links below: Julien Chable has been working on an open-source API project that would give Java developers a tool for rapid development of Open XML solutions. To view the video click here. Wouter Van Vugt is the architect of Package Explorer, and Doug Mahugh sat down with Wouter in Building 20 recently to discuss the status of the program and see a demonstration of some of its recently added new functionality. If you're doing...(read more)

New Library Article: SpreadsheetML Made Easy Using C#

ryanh — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:05:00 GMT

Tim discusses the experience of working with Open XML SDK 2.0.

The Project deliverable was an application that would periodically generate a new version of a standard spreadsheet, using the latest data from a database.

Click here to read the full article.