Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office

Brief Description

August 2009 Community Technical Preview (CTP)
This download provides strongly typed part and content classes for use with Open XML documents.

Overview

Open XML is an open ECMA 376 standard and is also approved as the ISO/IEC 29500 standard that defines a set of XML schemas for representing spreadsheets, charts, presentations, and word processing documents. Microsoft Office Word 2007, Excel 2007, and PowerPoint 2007 all use Open XML as the default file format.

The Open XML file formats are useful for developers because they use an open standard and are based on well-known technologies: ZIP and XML.

The Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office is built on top of the System.IO.Packaging API and provides strongly typed part classes to manipulate Open XML documents. The SDK also uses the .NET Framework Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) technology to provide strongly typed object access to the XML content inside the parts of Open XML documents.

The Open XML SDK 2.0 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.

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System Requirements

Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003; Windows Vista; Windows XP Service Pack 2

This download requires the following:

The Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.5.
Up to 124 MB of available disk space.

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Instructions

To install this download:

Download the file by clicking the Download link (above) and saving the file to your hard disk.
Double-click the OpenXMLSDKv2.msi program file on your hard disk to start the setup program.
Follow the instructions on the screen to complete the installation.

Note: If the .NET Framework 3.5 is not already installed on the computer, the setup wizard asks you to install the .NET Framework 3.5 first. The default installation path of the SDK is %systemdrive%\Program Files\Open XML Format SDK\V2.0\.

Instructions for use:
Once you have installed this download, you can use this reference to develop custom solutions based on the Open XML file formats.

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