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May 2009 - Posts

Links – May 28, 2009
Open XML Developer There are some great new articles: Introduction to the Open XML SDK 2.0 XSLT transforming XML to Open XML using Java OPC Team Blog The Open Packaging Conventions (OPC) team here at Microsoft has started a new blog. They’ve started off Read More...
Links – May 15, 2009
Doug Mahugh and a bunch of the standards crew (both in and out of Microsoft) have been having a great discussion on document format interoperability. They (and referenced posts) are worth reading. ODF Spreadsheet Interoperability 1 + 2 = 1? Tracked Changes Read More...
Working with Optional Elements and Attributes in LINQ to XML Queries
Often XML schemas allow for optional elements and attributes. When you write queries on these elements or attributes, you may be tempted to write code that does lots of testing for null. There is a better way to do this, laid out in this post. I covered Read More...
Comparison of Navigating Parts between System.IO.Packaging and the Open XML SDK
Code highlighted in yellow shows navigating from the package to the main document part. Code highlighted in green shows navigating from the main document part to the styles part. using System; using System.Linq; using System.IO; using System.IO.Packaging; Read More...
Using PHP with Open XML Spreadsheet Documents
OpenXmlDeveloper.org has just posted a new interesting article on using PHP to create Open XML spreadsheet documents. It includes a sample that shows how to create an Excel Spreadsheet from various formats created by financial applications and online Read More...
LINQ / Open XML at TechEd 2009
I’ll be presenting a talk on LINQ and Open XML at TechEd 2009. The session is “OFC403 Developing Office Client Solutions Using LINQ and Open XML”. I’ll be presenting on Thursday, 5/14, at 4:30PM in Room 411. Here is the abstract for the talk: In this Read More...
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