Open XML SDK CTP Released - What is it?
- Posted: Jun 04, 2007 at 2:23 PM
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Today, Microsoft announced the
public availability of a set of managed libraries, samples and documentation for programming Open XML in a manner .NET developers have grown accustomed to (writing applications in Visual Studio, programming in C#, etc..).
Chris Bryant is a Senior Product Manager on the Office Platform team (and Darth Vader fan). Here, we chat about the Open XML SDK, what it means for Office developers, general purpose programmers, mom and pop. We also touch on why Open XML is interesting.
In a subsequent interview on this topic, we will be interviewing Brian Jones and Doug Mahugh, who are the de facto Open XML gurus, to dig into the details of Open XML and the world of possibilities it opens for both software developers and Office document users.
Chris Bryant is a Senior Product Manager on the Office Platform team (and Darth Vader fan). Here, we chat about the Open XML SDK, what it means for Office developers, general purpose programmers, mom and pop. We also touch on why Open XML is interesting.
In a subsequent interview on this topic, we will be interviewing Brian Jones and Doug Mahugh, who are the de facto Open XML gurus, to dig into the details of Open XML and the world of possibilities it opens for both software developers and Office document users.
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So what happened to the CodePlex project? I looked at the object model for Word and it's similar to the one they were doing.
http://www.codeplex.com/OpenXMLObjects
It'd be nice if MS was the only one doing this (considering they are now), so that we don't have different frameworks out there trying to do the same thing.
Lastly, this is awesome! Like to see some real world examples of this, but I could imagine people easily using this in ASP.NET apps.
Also, has anyone tried (or planning) to "read" a Word document (or excel, ppt) using these APIs instead of just creating it? Let's say I want to open a word 07 document inside my Application and not use / embed Word activex control. Since it's all XML, can I do it? I know I'll be duplicating a lot of functionality, but if i'ts a document I just created, I probably know how to display it. Maybe as a "preview" or even editable view.
where do you post feedback btw?
From the blogs:
Use this for feedback.
I have gone thru the getting started tutorial on the SDK, and I found that the APIs are still very XML centric with stream writing and reading and some manipulation of XML object. It would be great if the SDK is more document centric with just Document and Part plus a general write/ read method.
BOb
I look forward to an honest reponse to this request instead of (as in the past via Brian Jones) doing stuff like:
Is there the equivalent of the XpsDocumentWriter.Write method in the Open XML SDK?
You will see code in upcoming Screencasts on C9. Plus, there will be more OpenXML videos in the near future. Stay tuned!
C
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