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Tuesday, November 10, 2009 3:53 PM

Open XML SDK Sessions at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC)

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:
Posted by BrianJones | 2 Comments
Tuesday, November 03, 2009 12:16 PM

Open XML and Office Services

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/archive/2009/10/26/introducing-word-automation-services.aspx
Posted by BrianJones | 2 Comments
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 9:45 PM

Open XML SDK Demos Shown at the SharePoint Conference (SPC)

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
Posted by BrianJones | 2 Comments
Friday, October 09, 2009 1:51 PM

Open XML SDK Sessions at the SharePoint Conference (SPC)

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
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Thursday, September 24, 2009 2:36 PM

Finding Open XML Errors with Open XML SDK Validation

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
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Thursday, September 17, 2009 12:44 PM

Open XML SDK Code Snippets

In my previous post , I announced the release of the Open XML SDK August 2009 CTP . Today, I want to announce the release of the Open XML SDK code snippets . This package of code snippets provides over fifty reusable code samples, in both C# and VB.NET,
Posted by BrianJones | 8 Comments
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 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
Posted by BrianJones | 4 Comments
Tuesday, July 21, 2009 12:43 PM

Embedding Any File Type, Like PDF, in an Open XML File

In my last post, I showed you guys how to embed an Excel spreadsheet within a Word document without the need to invoke an OLE Server. In today's post I am going to show you how to embed any file in an Open XML file. Specifically, I am going to show you
Posted by BrianJones | 4 Comments
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 3:26 PM

Embedding an Open XML File in another Open XML File

A couple of weeks ago I gave a presentation on the Open XML SDK to a few customers, where I was asked questions on how to embed files within Open XML documents. I thought it would be a good opportunity to devote a couple of posts around this topic. In
Posted by BrianJones | 4 Comments
Monday, June 15, 2009 7:00 AM

Removing Page and Section Breaks from a Word Document

In today's post I am going to show you how to remove page and section breaks within a Word document using the Open XML SDK. Removing these two types of breaks is similar, but requires two different approaches. Let's start off by jumping into removing
Posted by BrianJones | 3 Comments
Thursday, June 04, 2009 9:35 AM

Importing SmartArt from PowerPoint to Word

In previous posts, I showed you how to import charts from spreadsheets to a Wordprocessing document and how to import tables from Word documents to spreadsheets . Today, I am going to show you how to import SmartArt from a PowerPoint deck into a Word
Posted by BrianJones | 1 Comments
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 9:34 AM

Breaking Changes in the Open XML SDK v2 April 2009 CTP

One of the big changes we made in the Open XML SDK v2 April 2009 CTP was improving the Low Level DOM component to include functionality related to Office 2007 SP2. With this improvement came a difference in how some elements were interpreted as a 1 st
Posted by BrianJones | 5 Comments
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