Working with Office “open” XML - just how hard is it?

Question

I\'m considering replacing a (very) large body of Office-automation code with something that works with the Office XML format directly. I\'m just starting out, but already I\'m

Answer 1

Here is another third party library dedicated to working with OpenXML:

http://www.officewriter.com

In the example cited by amurra above of deleting Excel spreadsheet rows, this is a single method call with this tool. It updates formulas and all the other references for which it seems that 500 lines of code would be required for otherwise.

The OpenXML SDK itself is a great tool for very simple things, but you still have to concern yourself with a lot of the internals of the file format and packaging structure to get things really right.