Back in March of this year, Doug Mahugh talked about the roadmap for the OpenXML SDK, an important set of tools that will allow developers to quickly develop applications that read and right OpenXML (ECMA-376) documents.
This first version of the SDK, which is available as of today, includes a set of APIs capable of manipulating Open XML Formats at the part level. This version of the SDK is a fully supported release that developers can use to build and deploy shipping solutions.
Version 2 will contain all the necessary components of the Open XML API architecture and the first CTP will be available in late summer on the MSDN download site.
Hundreds of solutions have been created by developers worldwide building on the 2007 Microsoft Office system. There are currently nearly 150 partners who have developed Open XML solutions. You can see profiles of some of them in the MSDN Partner directory, including Captaris, Intergen and Xinnovation just to name a few.
Through the Open XML SDK’s sample code and how-to articles on the programming object model, developers will be able to decrease their development time for scenarios such as:
- Creating documents programmatically
- Customizing parts within documents
- Adding and inspecting custom XML within documents
- Working with and customizing document properties
You can download the OpenXML SDK v1.0 from here, you will find more reading material on the MSDN site here, or you can participate in the MSDN discussion forums for the SDK here.
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Hi Oliver,
That link still refers to the April CTP, unfortunately.
I’ve been on the lookout for the 1.0 official release, so we can wrap up all our new Open XML related improvements after switching to the SDK.
Gareth
Yes, I just saw a mail from Doug in my inbox that mentioned that… give it 24 hours and try the link again it should be updated by then.
I jumped the gun a little. Guilty as charged.
Oliver,
Doug Mahugh noted on the blog-entry that you are referring to that:
“Well, I seem to have underestimated our dev team: I’ve now verified that version 1.0 will definitely be 100% compliant with the final ISO/IEC 29500 spec, including the changes accepted at the BRM.”
Is this information still valid?
That is a question for Doug – I’ll flick him a mail and find out!
Good question, Jesper. I jumped the gun a bit myself there.
I was told in March that the dev team was confident that Version 1 could be IS29500-compatible, but after we thought through were things stand we decided to hold off a bit on that. There’s not much point in creating an incompatibility between the SDK and the current shipping version of Office, and it’s a much bigger job to modify Office’s implementation than to do this in the SDK. We’re going to keep them in synch going forward.
By the way, the SDK links will all be updated later today.