April 2009 - Posts
Kirk Evans , an architect evangelist at Microsoft, has posted five cool videos on SharePoint development: Introducing Visual Studio Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services (VSeWSS 1.3) Working with Features Expression Blend and Silverlight Calling
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There is an interesting approach that we use in PowerTools for Open XML that makes it easy to write cmdlets that modify Open XML documents. This approach isn’t very complicated, but aspects of this approach need some explanation so that developers who
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DocumentBuilder is an example class that’s part of the PowerTools for Open XML project that enables you to assemble new documents from existing documents. One of the problems to solve when moving markup from one document to another is that of interrelated
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There are a number of resources and guidelines that PowerTools for Open XML developers need in order to write PowerShell cmdlets for processing Open XML documents. This post presents a few tips for getting started developing PowerTools cmdlets. Getting
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PowerTools for Open XML v1.1.1 source code and binaries are now available. PowerTools for Open XML is an open source project on CodePlex that enables creation and processing of Open XML documents using PowerShell. This is a minor release that addresses
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There are two ways to assemble multiple Open XML word processing documents into a single document: altChunk, which is a special feature of Open XML word processing markup that enables you to embed an entire Open XML document or an html page at a specific
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[Blog Map] The post Move/Insert/Delete Paragraphs in Word Processing Documents using the Open XML SDK introduces the C# code that enables document composability – building new Open XML word processing documents from portions of existing ones. That is
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In my first version of my functional programming tutorial , I discussed a ForEach extension method, but I removed the topic from the second version. This extension method iterates through a source collection and performs an action on each item in the
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Lawrence Hodson has written a cool article (with accompanying example PowerShell scripts) published on OpenXmlDeveloper.org that uses PowerTools for Open XML v1.1 to generate a letter. His scenario is interesting – he generates a service level agreement
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SAVO , a Sales Enablement company based in Chicago, Illinois, provides a tool that enables collaboration on PowerPoint presentations for sales. Using SAVO’s tool, sales professionals can generate custom sales presentations that are tailored to a specific
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