TextGlow Silverlight Open XML Viewer Source Code available

TextGlow, the prototype Open XML Viewer for Silverlight is one of the most popular posts in the brief history of my blog. Intergen, a Microsoft partner in New Zealand, have now elected to offer the source code for this application on OpenXMLDeveloper.org. I am very excited about this development, Silverlight is amazing, and the combination of Open XML and Siverlight easy for a nerd like me to get excited about.

If you haven't signed up for OpenXMLDeveloper.org, now is a good time to do so. You'll find this source code as well as other projects to help your development of Open XML solutions.

Here is an excerpt from the article:

Displaying Open XML documents in Silverlight with TextGlow
By James Newton-King

The Office Open XML file format has opened up a new range of possibilities to working with documents. The Microsoft Office 2007 suite of products replaces the old binary formats and produces documents in a parser friendly XML format by default instead.

TextGlow (www.textglow.net) is a Silverlight 2.0 application that leverages the new Office Open XML file format to display Word documents directly in the browser. This article will look at how to use the built-in features of Silverlight 2.0 to read content from an OpenXML package, parse XML using LINQ to XML and display the document contents using Silverlight.