Open XML SDK 1.0 Released by Microsoft

Still in pursuance with Open XML, Microsoft released Open XML SDK 1.0 which allows developers to create, access and manipulate Open XML documents as said by Microsoft.

Here’s a brief information about Open XML SDK 1.0 taken from MSDN Website:

The Open XML Format SDK 1.0 simplifies the manipulation of OpenXML packages. The Open XML Application Programming Interface (API) encapsulates many of the common tasks that you typically perform on OpenXML packages, so you can perform complex operations with just a few lines of code. Some common tasks:

• Search. With a few lines of code, you can search a collection of Excel 2007 worksheets for some arbitrary data.
• Document assembly. You can create documents by combining the document parts of existing documents programmatically. For example, you can pull slides from various PowerPoint 2007 presentations to create a single presentation.
• Validation. With a few lines of code, you can validate the document parts in a package or validate an entire package against a schema.
• Data update. With the Open XML object model, you can easily modify the data in multiple packages.
• Privacy. With a few lines of code, you can remove comments and other personal information from a document before it is distributed.

You can use the Open XML API in any language supported by the Microsoft .NET Framework®. The help topics presented in this SDK provide code samples in Microsoft Visual C#® and Microsoft Visual Basic® .NET.
Using the code samples in the help topics in this SDK as a starting point, you can take advantage of the OpenXML standards in the 2007 Microsoft Office system. The Open XML API relieves much of the tedium of working with Open Packaging Conventions documents and is well worth your time to explore.