Open XML and Office Services

Brian Jones has a new post on his blog, http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2009/11/03/open-xml-and-office-services.aspx ,showing a great scenario for using Open XML and the new Office Services. A big highlight for me with these new tools is the ability to create PDFs at the end of the document generation process without including the Word client and performing Office automation. The scenario highlighted is just the tip of the iceberg of the power being brought to the enterprise.

OpenXML SDK Version 2 April 2009 CTP

Some exciting news, the second CTP version of the OpenXML SDK v2 has been released. Read the details over at http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2009/04/08/announcing-the-release-of-the-open-xml-sdk-version-2-april-2009-ctp.aspx.  Most exciting is the addition of schema level validation, this should drastically reduce invalid and corrupt files, something that has dogged me many times.