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Thursday, August 27, 2009 9:21 AM

Announcing the Release of the August 2009 CTP for the Open XML SDK

I'm really happy to announce the release of the 3 rd CTP for the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office ! So what did we do in this CTP? Well, there were three main improvements we made to the SDK: Add semantic level validation support Add markup compatibility/extensibility
Posted by BrianJones | 4 Comments
Wednesday, August 19, 2009 1:27 PM

Native Code Open Packaging Convention APIs

In my introduction post on the Open XML SDK I mentioned that the SDK is built on top of System.IO.Packaging . System.IO.Packaging is a set of APIs that are part of .NET 3.0, which allow developers to create and manipulate documents based on the Open Package
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Thursday, August 13, 2009 5:58 PM

Adding Repeating Data to PowerPoint

In a previous post, I showed you how to create a product catalog in a Word document using the Open XML SDK . I also showed you how to make PowerPoint a reporting application based on data within a database . Today, I am going to show you how to create
Posted by BrianJones | 4 Comments
Monday, August 10, 2009 12:06 PM

Office Extensibility Blog Now Offered in Russian

I wanted to pass along some really exciting news. Brian Jones' blog is now available in Russian! Check it out here: http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones_ru/ . Our plan is to continue localizing this blog into Russian so that we can share all the Office 2010
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Monday, August 03, 2009 9:05 AM

The Open XML SDK and Fluent UI Extensibility

Fluent UI, or the Ribbon, was introduced as part of Office 2007 as a replacement of the previous system of toolbars and menus. The Fluent UI technology, like the Open XML formats, is based on xml, which allows for a much richer extensibility story for
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