Why OpenXML is used in VB6?

[Beter 2 Burn Out]

Hello guys,
I am an intermediate programmer so I don't know much about the programming language, especially when it goes to deep. Few days back I was just going from my assignment, I read the OpenXML was used in VB.!! Before that I never heard about it. So please tell me why the OpenXML is used in VB6? Since I am new to this topic, explain me in details!!

[Allan.d]

To start, having chosen to use the latest version of the OpenXML SDK (2.0) it needs to install the Framework 3.5. So before doing that you will have to install it. There are Framework 3.5 available on the Web for free, so you have not to worry about. Then you will also have to install the SDK. Many programs that need to process documents often require manipulation of the file formats directly and doing that through the Office component object model. In Office 2007, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations are based on an open standard for packaging XML files called Open XML.

[Warner]

I think that you mighty have understood the concepts that were necessary for moving further. Because without knowing the concepts, you will not understand the methods that will be used ahead. Calling functions OpenXML SDK from VB6, based on a COM object, which serves as a 'wrapper'. In order to create your wrapper, you must use a class library. One thing you should keep in mind that, the model com class is not installed by default with Visual Basic 2008 Express, you will have to download it from the web.

[Zecho]

There are two ways to install the wrapper: using Visual Basic Express 2008, and compiling the source vb6-OpenXML provided or by using tools from the command line installed with the Windows SDK. The tools are command line installed applications simultaneously with Visual Express. During the installation, note the destination path of the kit should be :

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.1\

[Katty]

The OpenXML is the new file format used by Office suite (2007 version). The. Xlsx is actually a collection of files compressed in zip format. The "files" which will allow us to read and write in this workbook are situated in the xl file. The "package" is all files that once compressed, composed OpenXML document. Microsoft provided a free "OpenXML SDK" which allows a more simple packages, in implementing other functions Extraction / incorporation of "parts" of documents.