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Accessing Open XML Document Parts with the Open XML SDK
30 July 08 07:30 PM

About a month ago the Open XML SDK 1.0 (June 08 update) was released . The SDK provides strongly typed document part access to Word 2007, Excel 2007 and PowerPoint 2007 documents. The SDK has been a CTP for a while, but last month version 1.0 was finally Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 2 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, LINQ, DevCenter, Article, XML, Office

Community Article: Creating a Text-to-speech add-in for Word
13 June 08 12:50 PM

Just released onto the Visual Basic Developer Center and VSTO Portal , a new article Creating a Text-to-speech add-in for Microsoft Word 2007 with Visual Studio 2008 from a member of our Italian .NET community, Alessandro Del Sole . The article shows Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 0 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2008, Community, Article, Office

New Video Tutorials from the Community
18 March 08 04:15 PM

Bill Burrows, Visual Basic MVP has just released a new set of video tutorials on using Excel for business intelligence using the Excel 2007 Data Mining Add-in . Bill has done a lot of tutorials in the past. If you haven't seen them, I also recommend the Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 3 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, LINQ, VS2008, Community, DevCenter, Office

Watch 48 New Visual Basic "How Do I" Videos!
18 March 08 09:02 AM

We added 48 How Do I videos ( Forms over data , Windows development , Office development and Security ) to the Visual Basic developer Center in addition to adding new download formats for 12 others. This includes audio files, and additional videos files Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 6 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2008, Community, Videos, DevCenter, Office

Mail Merging with Word, LINQ and XML Literals in VB
06 December 07 05:50 PM

I've mentioned before that you can use XML literals in VB 9 to do text merging so I figured it should be pretty easy to do some mail merging in Word the same way. Word 2007 (and Excel, etc) now uses a standard XML format called Office Open XML to describe Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 16 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, LINQ, DevCenter, Article, XML, Office

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