This content set provides documentation and guidance for the
strongly-typed classes in the Open XML SDK for Office.
The SDK is built on the System.IO.Packaging
API and provides strongly-typed classes to manipulate documents that
adhere to the Office Open XML File Formats specification. The Office
Open XML File Formats specification is an open, international,
ECMA-376, 5th Edition
and ISO/IEC 29500
standard. The Open XML file formats are useful for developers because
they are an open standard and are based on well-known technologies: ZIP
and XML.
The Open XML SDK simplifies the task of manipulating Open XML
packages and the underlying Open XML schema elements within a package.
The Open XML SDK encapsulates many common tasks that developers
perform on Open XML packages, so that you can perform complex operations
with just a few lines of code.
Portions of ISO/IEC 29500:20081 are referenced in the SDK.
Note
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