Open XML

Recently, I sat down with some of the minds behind Office's Open XML to talk about Open XML, the new Open XML SDK and related stuff. What's the big deal? What's so open about it? How does it represent a major shift in the way some Office applications construct and store data? What are the…

Recently, I sat down with some of the minds behind Office's Open XML to talk about Open XML, the new Open XML SDK and related stuff. What's the big deal? What's so open about it? How does it represent a major shift in the way some Office applications construct and store data? What are the…

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 Open XML file formats can be used in many development environments, because they're based on very common technologies: ZIP and XML. In this video, Datta Kulkarni and Sanjay Kumar of Sonata Software (Bangalore, India) demonstrate a proof-of-concept Open XML application their team has…

Open XML documents are simply ZIP packages, but they follow a standardized architecture called the Open Packaging Convention. You can work with OPC packages (as used by Open XML, XPS, and various other formats) using simple tools such as WINZIP and Notepad, but if you're trying to be productive…

Julien Chable has been working on an open-source API project that would give Java developers a tool for rapid development of Open XML solutions. Since the Java environment doesn't have the .NET Framework 3.0 packaging API (System.IO.Packaging) to support the low-level details, the first phase of…

  Description: Join Don Campbell, Technical Evangelist for Microsoft, and Michael Scherotter, Solutions Platform Evangelist for Mindjet, to see a demonstration solution from the Mindjet Labs that uses the Open XML file format of Microsoft Office Word 2007 to transform business data from…

Brian Jones has been working on infusing XML smarts into Office for six years. In this episode we discuss the history of, the current status of, and future prospects for XML-enabled Office applications.

In this screencast, Office program manager Kevin Boske demos three code snippets for Visual Studio 2005 for working with Office Open XML files using the System.IO.Packaging namespace from .NET 3.0. Office Open XML is a file format standardized by Ecma. It is the new default file format for Word,…

In this screencast, program manager Amani Ahmed demonstrates how to create a Word 2007 template which can transfer data seamlessly to and from a SharePoint document library using content controls. See also Part 1 of this demonstration with Travis Ratnam. Related links: Tristan Davis's post…