Open XML SDK v2 FAQ Part3

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Open XML SDK 2.0 FAQ Part3

MSDN

·        Office Developer Center

·        Office Visual-How-To sites

·        An overview of Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office

·         Class Library References

·        Microsoft Office File Format Documents

YouTube Videos

·        The Open XML SDK Productivity Tool

·        Using the Open XML SDK to add repeating data to a PowerPoint Deck

·        Programmatically embedding an Excel spreadsheet into a Word document

·        Leveraging the Power of Word Automation Services and the Open XML SDK

·        Document Assembly: Merging Excel, PowerPoint, and Word Content Together

·        Extending the Reach of Excel Services with the Open XML SDK

·        Open XML SDK + Office Services: Better Together

·        Add Custom UI to Word Documents with the Open XML SDK

·        Programmatically Embedding a PDF into a Word Document

·        Import SmartArt From Ppt To Word

·        Retrieve Word Content Based on Styles

Forum & Blogs

·        Forum: http://openxmldeveloper.org/ -- a place to learn more about Open XML Formats news & information, to get questions answered and share your insights.

·        Open XML Format SDK Forum:  http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/oxmlsdk/threads/?prof=required -- a discussion forum for developer topics related to the Open XML Format SDK.

·        Brian Jones & Zeyad Rajabi: Office Solutions: http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/ -- focus on the types of Business Applications people are building that leverages Office functionality. There are miscellaneous articles about SDK, especially the sample code of real-world scenarios.

o   Brian Jones: a program manager in Office. He has been working on the XML functionality and file formats in Office, as well as other technologies folks use for extending Office in various ways.

o   Zeyad Rajabi: an Open XML document format Program Manager within the Microsoft Office division.

·        Eric White’s blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/ericwhite/ -- you could learn some Open XML related issues like file format & format conversion in detail.

·       Open Xml Explained e-book: A detailed introduction to Open Xml Format SDK and the format.

Third Party Efforts

·        TextGlow: Display Open XML documents in Sliverlight. (introduction1, introduction2).

·        Open XML Package Explorer: Explore the internal structure of Open Xml File Format package.

·        Oxygen XML Editor: Extract, validate, edit and process the XML data stored in Office 2007 files and any other ZIP-based archive. These capabilities allow developers to use data from Office 2007 documents together with validation and transformations (using XSLT or XQuery) to other file formats.

·        Open XML Viewer: Convert OOXML file to HTML.

·        Word Content Control Toolkit: Bind content controls to XML data in Word documents (Andrew Coates' tutorial).

·        VSTO Power Tools: Explorer the internal structure of Open Xml File Format package & simplify Office development by using included re-usable class libraries.

·        PHPExcel: Provide a set of classes for the PHP programming language, which allow you to write to and read from different file formats, like Excel 2007, PDF, HTML...

·        Simple OOXML: A set of helper classes to make the creation of Open Office XML documents easier. Uses the Open Office SDK v 2.0. Modify or create any .docx or .xlsx document without Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel. It provides high-level functions built upon SDK.

·        FlexDoc: A template-based server-side Word document generator.

·        Office Fluent™ User Interface Customization Tool: Blog post.

·        Other resources: Open XML Format External File Converter, Binary to Open XML Translator, Open XML to ODF Translator, Open XML to UOF Translator, Open XML to DAISY Translator.

·        ExtremeML: It enables packages to be created and edited via an intuitive object model and freeing developers from the burden of implementing the low-level detail of Open XML.