What is the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office?
The Open XML SDK provides developers a set of classes to easily create, consume, and manipulate Open XML files without the need for automating Office client applications. The Open XML SDK is designed to let developers build high performance client-side or server-side solutions that perform complex operations using only a small amount of program code. When combined with Office Services, such as Excel and Word Automation Services, the Open XML SDK is able to accomplish many end-to-end scenarios. In addition to the Open XML SDK a new Productivity Tool has been released that provides a number of features designed to improve a developer’s productivity while working with the Open XML SDK and Open XML files. The tool is capable of automatically generating Open XML SDK source code based on document content. The source code can be used to generate all or part of the document. Another feature of the Productivity Tool is the ability to validate Open XML files according to Office 2007 and Office 2
