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[Blog Map] This blog is inactive. New blog: EricWhite.com/blog Due to personal obligations (moving away from Seattle) it is with sadness that I’m announcing that I’m leaving Microsoft. My last day at Microsoft will be January 21. This will be the last post on this blog. I will be commencing...

[Blog Map] This blog is inactive. New blog: EricWhite.com/blog In this post, I complete the recursive descent parser that will parse the simple grammar that I presented previously in this series. In this post, I’ll examine in detail the NospaceExpression class, which needs to implement operator...

[Blog Map] This blog is inactive. New blog: EricWhite.com/blog In this post, I further enhance the recursive descent parser that will parse the simple grammar that I presented previously in this series. I’ll examine some more classes that represent symbols in that grammar. The classes I present...

[Blog Map] This blog is inactive. New blog: EricWhite.com/blog In this post, I present the start of a recursive descent parser that will parse the simple grammar that I presented previously in this series. I’ll point out some key features of the code so that it is easy to see how the code works...

[Blog Map] This blog is inactive. New blog: EricWhite.com/blog Tables are a feature in Open XML spreadsheets that allow you to interact with data more like a database. You can select a region and convert it to a table. Most Excel aficionados are familiar with this feature. It is very useful. ...

[Blog Map] This blog is inactive. New blog: EricWhite.com/blog A key operation when doing pure functional transformations is the process of creating complex hierarchies of objects. We see this when transforming some data source (such as an Open XML WordprocessingML document) to a LINQ to XML tree...

[Blog Map] This blog is inactive. New blog: EricWhite.com/blog To learn how recursive descent parsers work, it is helpful to implement a very simple grammar, so for pedagogical purposes, I’ve defined a grammar for simple arithmetic expressions. The parser will construct a syntax tree from expressions...

[Blog Map] This blog is inactive. New blog: EricWhite.com/blog A grammar is a device to define syntax for a language. A grammar is made up of rules, sometimes called productions. Each rule defines a symbol, when can then be further used in other rules. Grammars are not hard to understand; most developers...

[Blog Map] This blog is inactive. New blog: EricWhite.com/blog In Open XML WordprocessingML documents, there are five types of parts that can contain content such as paragraphs (with or without tracked revisions), tables, rows, cells, and any of a variety of content controls: Main document part...

[Blog Map] This blog is inactive. New blog: EricWhite.com/blog Recursive descent parsers are one of the easier types of parsers to implement. Given a properly defined grammar, you write a class for each production in the grammar, and you write one fairly simple method in each class. Each of those...

[Blog Map] This blog is inactive. New blog: EricWhite.com/blog The VSTO team today announced the release of the new Open XML Package Editor for Visual Studio 2010 ! This is an indispensible tool in every Open XML developer’s toolbox. This Power Tool is a Visual Studio add-in that provides...

[Blog Map] This blog is inactive. New blog: EricWhite.com/blog Today we reached RTM for Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010, and Project 2010! The Office Engineering team’s blog has all the details .

[Blog Map] This blog is inactive. New blog: EricWhite.com/blog When you are writing code for an Office managed add-in, you can use the Open XML SDK to manipulate the current document in a whole variety of ways. This is a very powerful technique, which in some circumstances can give your application...

[Blog Map] This blog is inactive. New blog: EricWhite.com/blog Processing tracked changes (sometimes known as tracked revisions) is something important that you should full understand when writing Open XML applications. If you first accept all tracked revisions, your job of processing or transforming...

[Blog Map] This blog is inactive. New blog: EricWhite.com/blog Doug Mahugh has a very interesting post on our plans for Microsoft Office to offer full read/write support for the Strict conformance class of ISO/IEC 29500 . From the post: “All of that work took has moved us much closer to full...

[Blog Map] This blog is inactive. New blog: EricWhite.com/blog A wide variety of business applications can take advantage of content controls to give semantic meaning to content in Open XML WordprocessingML documents. However, most applications that can benefit from content controls fit into one of...

[Blog Map] This blog is inactive. New blog: EricWhite.com/blog We’ve published ten of the most popular videos from the SharePoint Conference. SharePoint 2010 Videos Overview of the SharePoint 2010 Developer Platform This SharePoint Conference video provides code-based demos and a brief...

[Blog Map] This blog is inactive. New blog: EricWhite.com/blog Sometimes you want to process all paragraphs in a document, and filter based on the style name. However, sometimes it isn’t good enough to just filter on the style name, because if another style inherits from the style of interest...

[Blog Map] This blog is inactive. New blog: EricWhite.com/blog Zeyad Rajabi and Frank Rice have put together a cool article, Assembling Documents on SharePoint 2010 Sites by Merging Content from Excel, PowerPoint, and Word , that shows how to build an innovative document generation solution on SharePoint...

[Blog Map] This blog is inactive. New blog: EricWhite.com/blog Now this is just cool. Many of the videos published on MSDN have been moved to the MSN video platform, and this has a very positive effect on developers watching How-to videos when bandwidth is somewhat limited. At home, I have basic cable...

[Blog Map] This blog is inactive. New blog: EricWhite.com/blog On a fairly regular basis, I need to write an example that retrieves an Open XML document from a SharePoint document library, modify the document, and save the document back to the document library. The correct approach is to use a CAML...

[Blog Map] This blog is inactive. New blog: EricWhite.com/blog There are some tasks that are difficult using the Open XML SDK, such as repagination, conversion to other document formats such as PDF, or updating of the table of contents, fields, and other dynamic content in documents. Word Automation...

[Blog Map] This blog is inactive. New blog: EricWhite.com/blog Microsoft has released the RTM version of Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office today. This is great news and another big step forward for developers who write software systems that read and write Open XML documents. Till now, we’ve...

[Blog Map] This blog is inactive. New blog: EricWhite.com/blog The altChunk importing functionality of Word supports the following formats for the imported content: AlternativeFormatImportPartType enum Content Type Html text/html Mht ...

[Blog Map] This blog is inactive. New blog: EricWhite.com/blog This is one in a series of posts on transforming Open XML WordprocessingML to XHtml. You can find the complete list of posts here . Recently I went through the process of handling a variety of details in the XHtml converter –...