Creating Data-Bound Content Controls using the Open XML SDK and LINQ to XML

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re: Creating Data-Bound Content Controls using the Open XML SDK and LINQ to XML

Sondre — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:05:35 GMT

Question regarding the GetTextFromContentControl method in your example. This looks for "p" elements and there is normally (as far as I've seen) no "p" tags within the "sdt" elements, which is the parameter into the method.

Looking at some of my own Open XML documents, it looks like the following example would be more correct. Yet, this example does not support placeholders that allows carriage returns.

e.Element(w + "sdtContent").Element(w + "r").Element(w + "t").Value.Trim()

Additionally the code will fail whenever there is placeholders that does not have any tag specified, to avoid this you can make a check in the foreach loops, something like:

if (sdt.Element(w + "sdtPr").Element(w + "tag") != null)

Thanks for a great example!

re: Creating Data-Bound Content Controls using the Open XML SDK and LINQ to XML

Ryan Riley — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:57:01 GMT

I just read Brian Jones' <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2009/01/05/taking-advantage-of-bound-content-controls.aspx" title="Taking Advantage of Bound Content Controls">post</a> where he completely swaps out the custom XML part. The code appears much more concise, but does it lack in the area of property reconstructing the Custom XML Part Properties?

re: Creating Data-Bound Content Controls using the Open XML SDK and LINQ to XML

satchi — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:22:41 GMT

Hi Eric,

Can we do the custom binding for content controls that are in header and footer parts?