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Antonio Zamora has posted an interesting article on using PowerTools for Open XML in a workflow using Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). We're seeing quite a few people who are using PowerTools for Open XML in a variety of scenarios. If you are using WF,
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I am a newbie to PowerShell scripting. This is probably pretty obvious to anyone who has taken a look at the PowerShell scripts that I've written. Fortunately, there are people around who can improve on my efforts. Developer/Author Doug Finke has developed
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Sometimes you want to generate a wordprocessing document that contains a table. I've created an XML file that contains customers and orders, and a PowerShell script that uses the PowerTools for Open XML that generates a set of documents, each containing
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I'm very excited today to announce a new open source project, PowerTools for Open XML . Processing Open XML documents using PowerShell is a powerful approach for creating, modifying, and transforming Open XML documents. The PowerTools for Open XML are
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The example scripts that are demonstrated in the PowerTools introduction screen-cast are attached to this page. In the near future, we'll be updating this page with a number of How-To articles that show how to use PowerTools for Open XML in a variety
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Open XML PowerTools Design Goals Processing Open XML documents using PowerShell is a powerful and compelling approach to creating and modifying Open XML documents on a server. The Open XML PowerTools were designed to make it easy to create and modify
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Processing Open XML on a server using PowerShell is a powerful and compelling scenario. The PowerTools for Open XML are a set of sample PowerShell cmdlets and source code that demonstrate an approach for creating and modifying Open XML documents using
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PowerTools for Open XML Processing Open XML documents using PowerShell on a server is a powerful and compelling approach to creation and modification of Open XML documents. PowerTools for Open XML are sample source code and guidance for developers showing
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