LINQ in Action - THE LINQ book

I’ll be presenting a talk on LINQ and Open XML at TechEd 2009.  The session is “OFC403 Developing Office Client Solutions Using LINQ and Open XML”.  I’ll be presenting on Thursday, 5/14, at 4:30PM in Room 411.  Here is the abstract for the talk: In this session, learn how to leverage LINQ with version 1 and 2 of the Open XML SDK to ...

At TechReady8, I’ll be presenting a 400 level course “Developing Office Client Solutions using LINQ and Open XML”.  TechReady8 is a Microsoft employee only event, but non-Microsoft folks in the Seattle area can come see the same talk at the .NET Developers Association of Redmond meeting on January 19th.  This talk will be at 7:00PM, in ...

[Blog Map] When using the Open XML SDK with SharePoint web services, one of the most basic operations is to get a document from a document library using web services, modify it using the Open XML SDK (and LINQ to XML), and save it back to the document library.  This post describes how to do this, and provides a sample in C#. It is simple to ...

When working with Open XML documents from within SharePoint, you may want to open a specific document, modify it in some way, and then save it, either replacing the original document, or saving to a new location.  This isn’t very hard, but there are a few issues.  This post describes the issues and presents a minimal amount of code that ...

Sometimes you want to work with Open XML documents in memory.  There are two scenarios that I know of: When working with document libraries in SharePoint, you retrieve a document from the document library as a byte array.  You can then modify it as necessary, and then put it back into the document library, either as a new ...

This post presents a custom application page in SharePoint that uses Open XML, the Open XML SDK and LINQ to XML to accept revisions, remove comments, and remove personal information from an Open XML word processing document. The following 45 second screen-cast demonstrates the code presented in this post.Video: Using Open XML with SharePoint ...