Brian Jones: Office Solutions

On Monday, I posted on the Office Next blog about the experience from an end user perspective around apps for Office and SharePoint . Yesterday, I posted about it from the developer point of view . Tomorrow, I'll post from the IT/administrator point of...

Vivek announced a contest we're kicking off for people who are building apps for Office or SharePoint. Here's a link to the post: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/officeapps/archive/2012/08/07/game-on-win-big-prizes-in-the-app-contest.aspx The short of it though...

We're going to have a few posts this week up on the Office Next blog that drill into the new app model from three perspectives: the end user; the developer; and the administrator. This first post that goes into the end user experience is now live: http...

There is new a CTP available of the Open XML SDK version 2.5: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30425 As I mentioned in my post earlier this week , Open XML is an important piece of our overall application model for Office 365...

I just posted on the apps for Office blog, giving some more background into the new model: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/officeapps/archive/2012/07/23/introducing-apps-for-the-new-office-and-sharepoint.aspx

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In my last post, I showed you guys how to use the Open XML SDK to read and parse large Excel files . Today, I am going to show you how to write large Excel files with the Open XML SDK . Like in the case of reading, the Open XML SDK provides two approaches...

I want to thank you guys for leaving blog post requests. Today's post will focus on one of your requests: parsing and reading large Excel files with the Open XML SDK. The Open XML SDK provides two approaches for parsing Open XML files: 1. using the SDK...

In a previous post , where I announced the release of the Open XML SDK 2.0 , I promised to give you guys a list of improvements and breaking changes made to the SDK compared to the December 2009 CTP . We made a few tweaks to the SDK based on some of...

This post will represent the most up-to-date blog map for topics on the Open XML SDK. Open XML SDK Basics Topic Description Open XML SDK… the Basics Learn about classes of the SDK and their first class properties. This post is a great introduction to...

Today, I am really excited to announce the worldwide availability of the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office ! The Open XML SDK plays an integral part in creating Office document solutions that work on the client or server. The Open XML SDK allows you...

I am probably starting to sound like a broken record, but I am really excited about the different types of solutions that are possible when combining the Open XML SDK with Office Services. In the past, I showed you how to leverage the Open XML SDK to...

John Durant just announced a new interactive developer training tool, based on Silverlight, called Office Developer Atlas . This tool is a great starting point for learning how to develop Office solutions. The current version of the tool concentrates...

Have you ever wanted to update page number fields or a table of contents within Word documents on the server? The Open XML SDK provides functionality that allows you to easily add or remove content within a Word document. However, as mentioned in the...

Recently on Gray's blog he posted about a scanning tool that can be used to detect custom XML markup in Word Open XML files (*.docx, *.docm, *.dotm, and *.dotx). The tool is built using the Open XML SDK and we wanted to take the opportunity to show you...

Document assembly seems to be a hot topic these days especially when combined with the power of SharePoint. Today, I want to show you a pretty rich document assembly solution that is able to take multiple Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents and merge...

I'm really happy to announce the 4 th CTP for the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office ! There were four major improvements we made to the SDK: Full support for the Office 2010 Open XML formats Office 2010 schema and semantic level validation...

Note: Updated post to point to a YouTube video that is shorter than 10 minutes In Brian's last blog he talked about Open XML and Office Services as a one-two punch to complete many types of solutions. I am going to start writing some posts that showcase...

I just got back from PDC and am excited to share with you guys the presentation, deck, and code samples I showed at my session . I also want to thank everyone who attended my session. Here is my recorded session: You can find my session deck here: http...

I'm pretty excited, next week I'll be at PDC in Los Angeles giving another presentation on the Open XML SDK. I'll be at the conference from Nov 17-19, so if you're at PDC do come by and say hi. Here's the description and time of the session I'll be presenting...

If you didn't see the news up on the Word team blog announcing Word Automation Services, and you have any interest in server side conversion of .docx files into .pdf or .xps, you should definitely go take a look: http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_office_word...

For those folks who have custom Office solutions within their enterprise, one area that you often need to focus on during the upgrade cycle is testing out those custom solutions to make sure they'll run in the latest version. With Office 14, we're going...

First off, I want to thank everyone who attended my two sessions at SPC on developing solutions on top of the Open XML SDK. The sessions were recorded, so as soon as they are published to the web I will send you guys some links. In the meantime, I want...

We're just a couple of weeks away before the start of the SharePoint Conference (SPC) being held in Las Vegas. I want to give you guys a heads up that I will be at the conference from Oct 19-22. I'm pretty excited because I will be giving two different...

In a previous post, I gave you an overview of the functionality added to the Open XML SDK 2.0 August 2009 CTP . Today, I want to deep dive into the schema and semantic level validation support within the SDK. Specifically, I am going to show you guys...