Office 2010 Sample: Open XML SDK 2.0 Code Snippets for Visual Studio 2010

Download this package to install the Open XML SDK 2.0 code snippets for use with Visual Studio 2010.

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Office 2010 Sample: Open XML SDK 2.0 Code Snippets for Visual Studio 2010

Quick Note: Importing XML Data into a Mapped List in Excel 2010

Learn to import XML data into a list in Excel 2010, with and without a mapping schema.

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Quick Note: Importing XML Data into a Mapped List in Excel 2010

Using Microsoft Word to Create Reports For LightSwitch (or Silverlight)

LightSwitch has a really nice feature on data grids that allow you to export them to Excel if running out of browser (full trust). This gives you a basic way of getting data out of the system to create reports or do further analysis on the data using Excel. However, in business applications you typically want to provide some client-side reporting that also formats the data in a certain way so it can be printed easily.

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Outlook 2010 XML Schema Reference

Download this reference and start developing solutions based on the XML schemas used in Outlook 2010.

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Outlook 2010 XML Schema Reference

Excellent Learning Tool for Open XML SDK 2.0

For some weeks ago Microsoft announced that they had launched the final version of Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office . With this SDK we can create and manipulate Excel workbooks in code without involving Excel and also without having Excel installed. What comes as a bonus with SDK 2.0 is the Open XML SDK 2.0 Productivity Tool for Microsoft Office . I was very pleased and surprised to discover that this is a multipurpose tool that allows us to a) generate reflected code, i.e to see the correct code to interact with the Open XML Documents file format, b) comparing source and target files code and b) validate code

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Excellent Learning Tool for Open XML SDK 2.0

Building Document Generation Systems from Templates with Word 2010 and Word 2007

Document generation systems are one of the most compelling uses of Open XML WordprocessingML. This article contains guidance for this scenario and links to MSDN articles and blog posts.

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Building Document Generation Systems from Templates with Word 2010 and Word 2007

What is “Custom XML?” … and the impact of the i4i judgment on Word

I recall saying recently that ” this is my last post for 2009 ." Whoops… I don't think I was anticipating this. I watched with interest yesterday the coverage and reaction to the i4i judgment.

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Generating Microsoft Office Documents with the Open XML SDK

The Open XML SDK provides a comprehensive set of classes that make generating and manipulating Microsoft Office documents much simpler and faster than was possible with older Office file formats.

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Using LINQ to Query Tables in Excel 2007 (Visual How To)

Learn how to use the Open XML Formats to load information stored in Excel worksheets into generic lists that support LINQ.

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Using LINQ to Query Tables in Excel 2007 (Visual How To)

Announcing the Release of the Open XML SDK Version 2 April 2009 CTP

I’m really happy to announce the release of the second CTP for version 2 of the Open XML SDK ! Back in October 2008 I showed you guys an architecture diagram of the Open XML SDK. Let’s take another look at this diagram: In version 1 of the Open XML SDK we released the Open XML Packaging API, which allows you to create, open and manipulate Open XML files at the package and part level. In the first CTP of version 2 we released the Open XML Low Level DOM and Stream Reading/Writing components, which allow you to create and manipulate objects within xml parts contained in an Open XML package.

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Announcing the Release of the Open XML SDK Version 2 April 2009 CTP