Open XML Format SDK 2.0 September 2008 (CTP)

 

Welcome to the Open XML Format SDK 2.0

This reference provides strongly-typed part and content classes to manipulate Open XML documents.

Welcome to the Open XML Format SDK 2.0 September 2008 Community Technical Preview (CTP). The Open XML Format is an open ECMA 376 standard and is also approved as the ISO/IEC 29500 standard. Microsoft Office Word 2007, Microsoft Office Excel® 2007, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint® 2007 all use these formats as the default file format. Open XML formats are useful for developers because they are an open standard and are based on well-known technologies: ZIP and XML. This SDK is built on top of the System.IO.Packaging API and provides strongly-typed part classes to manipulate Open XML documents. This SDK also leverages the .NET Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) technology to provide strongly-typed object access to the XML content inside the parts of Open XML documents.

Publish date of this reference: September 2008 (version 2007)

Getting Started with the Open XML Format SDK 2.0

The Open XML Format SDK 2.0 September 2008 Community Technical Preview (CTP) simplifies the task of manipulating Open XML packages and the underlying Open XML schema elements within a package. The Open XML Application Programming Interface (API) encapsulates many common tasks that developers perform on Open XML packages, so you can perform complex operations with just a few lines of code.

Using the Open XML API

Using the Open XML API is simple. In your project or application, simply add a reference to the DocumentFormat.OpenXml.dll. You can download the file from Open XML Format SDK 2.0.