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  • ShapeAppCSharp v 2 Office Add-ins using XML

        Office 2007 introduced a new storage method for Office document.  The new documents are actually packages- they are zip files of xml documents.  To explore one of these packages, change the extension to .zip and explore it like any other zip file, or download the package explorer tool from CodePlex to explore ...
    Posted to VSTA Samples (FileGallery) by Melody on June 17, 2008

  • Using VSTA to Create Office Documents Through XML

        With the introduction of LINQ to XML and the OpenXml formatting of Office 2007 documents it is incredibly easy to use VSTA to import and export data from a host application to an Office document and vice versa.  One benefit of using OpenXml (or for Excel straight xml as well) is that this can be performed without ...
    Posted to Melody's VSTA Blog (Weblog) by Melody on June 17, 2008

  • VSTA and LINQ to XML with Excel

    VSTA 2 can be used to extend a host application to use LINQ in a variety of ways.  One example of this is to use LINQ to XML to use an XML file as input.  LINQ to XML is doubly convenient because Office products, such as Excel 2007, work well with XML files. Using LINQ to XML to input data that was created or manipulated in an ...
    Posted to Melody's VSTA Blog (Weblog) by Melody on April 15, 2008