Announcing the New Open XML Object Model - CTP

What a day at Tech ED! Today Doug Mahugh announced during his session the new Open XML Object Model and Brian Jones has a must see post in his blog.

The Open XML object model encapsulates many common tasks that developers perform on Open XML packages, so you can perform complex operations with just a few lines of code. As you can imagine, this API is a great time saver for those of you that write code to manipulate Open XML packages using the System.IO.Packaging APIs. I was lucky enough to play with this API some weeks before the release and I strongly recommend that you download your copy and get your hands dirty. I can tell you that with this new API you write ~70% less code.

The following is a partial class diagram of the API.

My dear friend Frank Rice did a fantastic job creating an SDK for the API. We included the previous diagram and some how-to articles that Frank and I wrote J. You can download the SDK and the API from this link: https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AD0B72FB-4A1D-4C52-BDB5-7DD7E816D046&displaylang=en

Additionally you can find online documentation here: https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb448854.aspx

Some must see MSDN topics:

• Getting Started with the Microsoft SDK for Open XML Formats
• Open XML Object Model Diagram
• Class Library Reference
• How to: Add a New Part to an Office Open XML Package by Using the Open XML Object Model
• How to: Add an Image Part to an Office Open XML Package by Using the Open XML Object Model
• How to: Copy the Contents of an Office Open XML Package Part to a Part in a Different Package by Using the Open XML Object Model
• How to: Create an Office Open XML Package by Using the Open XML Object Model
• How to: Duplicate an Existing Part from an Office Open XML Package by Using the Open XML Object Model
• How to: Get the Contents of a Part from an Office Open XML Package by Using the Open XML Object Model
• How to: Get Worksheet Information from an Office Open XML Package by Using the Open XML Object Model
• How to: Insert Custom XML to an Office Open XML Package by Using the Open XML Object Model
• How to: Remove a Part from an Office Open XML Package by Using the Open XML Object Model
• How to: Replace a Part in an Office Open XML Package by Using the Open XML Object Model
• How to: Retrieve Comments from a Word 2007 Document by Using the Open XML Object Model
• How to: Retrieve Property Values from a Word 2007 Document by Using the Open XML Object Model
• How to: Validate the Contents of a Part in an Office Open XML Package by Using the Open XML Object Model
• How to: Validate an Office Open XML Package by Using the Open XML Object Model
• How to: Validate the Contents of a Part in an Office Open XML Package by Using the Open XML Object Model

Feedback is welcome!

Keep in mind this is a CTP, so we are expecting to get a lot of customer feedback to polish this API into a better one.

If you are at Tech ED, you should stop by at the Open XML File Formats booth. Stephanie, Doug, and I will be happy to chat with you.

If you are not at Tech Ed and are interested in providing feedback, you can submit a post at the Microsoft SDK Open XML MSDN Forum. Additionally, if you want to submit feedback about the documentation, you can use our Wiki enabled articles in MSDN.

Have fun with the API and PLEASE let us know what you think.

Comments

• Anonymous
  June 04, 2007
  PingBack from http://msdnrss.thecoderblogs.com/2007/06/04/announcing-the-new-open-xml-object-model-ctp/

• Anonymous
  June 05, 2007
  I was so busy with activities related to the announcement of the new SDK yesterday that I didn't get

• Anonymous
  June 06, 2007
  Microsoft has announced a new .NET API for working with the Open XML file formats. The SDK for Open XML...

• Anonymous
  June 13, 2007
  Erika deserves a gold star for the work she did to make this discoverable for developers. Awesome! Thank you!

• Anonymous
  June 13, 2007
  I was just having a look at the Office Developer Center on MSDN and I noticed this blog post from Erika

• Anonymous
  July 02, 2007
  You fail to mention that Open XML is not a standard - there is an effort by MS to make it an ECMA standard; but this huge document has not been accepted. However, there is an existing ISO standard (http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=43485) Thanks

• Anonymous
  November 28, 2007
  I recently got a query from a customer for information on Open XML development and compiled a couple

• Anonymous
  November 28, 2007
  I recently got a query from a customer for information on Open XML development and compiled a couple

• Anonymous
  August 07, 2009
  Is there an example to create an Excel Worksheet containing a Pivot Chart/Table report?