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April 2008 - Posts

Monday, April 28, 2008 9:08 PM

Creating a Open XML PowerPoint presentation from scratch using System.IO.Packaging

Here is how I’ve got to create this sample – One of my customer had a similar requirement when I tried to search a sample for him to demonstrate, I couldn’t find one (blame it on my searching capabilities or whatever .. ) While creating a sample there
Posted by Pranav Wagh | 3 Comments
Attachment(s): supportfiles.zip
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 9:30 PM

Couple of issues in PowerPoint 2007

One of my customer reported a couple of very interesting issues (bugs?) in PowerPoint 2007. If you have a presentation which has a shape with a gradient and you try to find out the color of each gradient using GradientStops.Color.RGB from .NET, you might
Posted by Pranav Wagh | 1 Comments
Monday, April 21, 2008 9:36 PM

Open XML Format SDK April CTP - Released !!

It's there, Open XML SDK April CTP is released, it's for all of us - the proud office developers :) I was waiting for it! Erica - thanks a lot ... (in fact I was searching for this last week, but couldn't find it ... well, I was a bit early). Also, you
Posted by Pranav Wagh | 0 Comments
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 10:33 PM

Responding Armagan - Display Thumbnails For Every Page Of A Document

Here is one of the question from one of you regarding the contents on Display Thumbnails For Every Page Of A Document . === Hi. I'd like to thank about your EnhMetaFileBits code, it helped me alot. If you don't mind I'd like to ask you something about
Posted by Pranav Wagh | 1 Comments
Monday, April 14, 2008 10:33 PM

Tip: Getting text from a WordArt Shape

Here is a quick tip - Although you can't get/modify the text from a WordArt Shape using “oDocument.Shapes(n).TextFrame.TextRange.Text”, but we can modify the text using “oDocument.Shapes(n).TextEffect.Text”. Technorati tags: Tips , QuickPick , Word+2007
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008 1:32 AM

How to use get the HTML contents of the document using IDataObject

Sure, I know there are many ways of doing it - You can save it as HTML and then read the HTML file or you can use the HTMLProject items from the Word OM or you can just select all the contents of the file and save it to clipboard and read it from there.
Posted by Pranav Wagh | 0 Comments
Friday, April 04, 2008 3:19 AM

DIS29500 is now IS29500 ... Open XML Wins! thanks everybody!

Yes ..really thanks everybody, people who were "for" and people who were "not for". I believe that everything that happened in this one year helped in the improvement of the spec. The winner is not only Open XML, You and Me also won in the process. I
Posted by Pranav Wagh | 1 Comments
Thursday, April 03, 2008 7:00 PM

How to do a "Save Copy As" In Word

Ever wondered how can you do a "Save Copy As" in word? Or why it's not there? well ... I don't know about why it's not there, but I can tell you how to do it using custom code To do it, the first thing you need to know about is - IPersistFile interface
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