July 2008 - Posts
ZDNet Asia recently interviewed Oliver Bell, Microsoft Asia-Pacific's regional technology officer. The story mentions Oliver's blog post on the value that custom schema support adds to the format. I can attest that I've had several conversations recently
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This week, I’ve been attending a gathering of Microsoft technical sales professionals. In one presentation, I heard the following opinion (paraphrased): “The most important pillar of SharePoint is content management. This is the core value proposition
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Pranav released another drop of Open XML Diff . There are a couple of bugs fixed. Read about Open XML Diff here . This tool is a developer's friend. When I'm writing code to generate an Open XML Document, I know how I want the document to render in Word,
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Antonio Zamora from Staff DotNet has posted something pretty cool - firing off a PowerShell script from C# to apply a consistent style to multiple Open XML documents. This is an interesting way to take advantage of the PowerTools for Open XML .
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The response to my previous blog post has been very interesting to me. And it has, to a very large extent, matched my own experience. I have seen four basic scenarios where folks use LINQ: Using LINQ to Objects (and LINQ to XML, which is really just LINQ
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I had an interesting conversation with my nephew the other day. He is a very bright CS student working as a summer intern at a software company (not Microsoft). He is programming in C# using Visual Studio 2008. I asked him if developers at his company
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This post presents a custom application page in SharePoint that uses Open XML, the Open XML SDK and LINQ to XML to accept revisions, remove comments, and remove personal information from an Open XML word processing document. The following 45 second screen-cast
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In the next series of blog posts, I’ll be exploring some interesting aspects of SharePoint development. In particular, I’ll be examining how to leverage the combination of Open XML, LINQ to XML, and SharePoint. The Open XML document formats enable new
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For those who don't know, XmlLite is a very lightweight, fast pull parser that was introduced with the Vista SDK. It is a native parser, not part of the managed API. However, unlike MSXML, it's ok to use with .NET using COM interop. There have been questions
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Here is something that is very, very cool! Pranav Wagh has built a much improved version of OpenXmlDiff , with a graphical user interface. And its free, already built (binaries available) on code.msdn.com/OpenXMLDiff . When you start the program, you
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Julien Chable written a concise post on using PowerShell and Power Tools for Open XML to secure and sign Open XML documents. He also has a short, useful intro to creating a PowerShell profile. One more thing, Julien has joined the Power Tools for Open
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In the last three posts, in addition to the information regarding how we want to alter the markup in an Open XML document, I've made a few observations about how to write LINQ to XML code when modifying an XML tree in such a way that it becomes harder
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This post presents a snippet of code to remove comments from an Open XML Wordprocessing document. Note: This post may be of interest to LINQ to XML developers, as it contains some information that helps you write queries that perform better. In the case
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This post presents some code to remove personal information from an Open XML word processing document. Note: this post contains interesting information for LINQ to XML developers even if you are not interested in removing personal information from a document.
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In this post, I present some code that uses the Open XML SDK and LINQ to XML to accept all revisions in an Open XML word processing document. So, for example, if we have this document: And we run this code, the document then looks like this: The main
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Antonio Zamora at Staff DotNet has written an interesting post on using the PowerTools for Open XML to apply consistent styles to documents. It gets information from a template document (headers, footers, and theme) and sets this information on the target
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This is a fun, geeky post for those interested in functional programming. Sometimes you have flat data where there is hierarchy expressed in the data, but the form of the data is flat. You may need to transform this data into a hierarchy, such as an XML
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Doug Finke has an interesting post on using System.IO.Packaging (the basis for Open XML documents) with PowerShell. He has developed a cmdlet that allows interaction with Open XML documents. The code forms the basis for an approach to modify the contents
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In this post, I’m presenting some code that uses the Open XML SDK and LINQ to XML to query an Open XML document. I’ve posted on this before , but this version is cleaner and smaller. It also is an example of code written in the functional style . The
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Staff Dot Net , a consultancy and training company, is now providing binary builds of the PowerTools for Open XML . You can download the binary build here . Note that this binary build still requires .NET 3.5 to be installed. The PowerTools use LINQ to
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