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Comparing Two Open XML Packages with Open XML Diff
31 July 08 04:18 PM

Yesterday I received an email from another employee here at Microsoft to check out this tool called Open XML Diff that he was working on. His name is Pranav Wagh and he just released another drop of the tool which you can read about oh his blog . You Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Community, XML, Office

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

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 | 17 Comments    

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

Attachment(s):WordMailMerge.zip

Quickly Import and Export Excel Data with LINQ to XML
30 October 07 08:00 PM

One really handy thing to do with relational data is to import and export it to Excel. This can be a total snap using LINQ to XML in Visual Basic 2008. For example, let's say I want to import data from an Excel spreadsheet into a local database file like Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 54 Comments    

Filed under: LINQ, VS2008, DevCenter, Article, XML, Office, Data

Attachment(s):ImportExportExcel.zip