ODF Toolkit - .net Module AODL available for download

I'm pleased to announce that a new version 1.3.0.0 beta of AODL (the .net Module of the ODF Toolkit) is available for download. A large part of the new features are based on the work of Oleg Yegorov's Google Summer of Code 2007 project. By the way the GSOC is still running, but Oleg has already finished all of his tasks. Thanks a lot for his excellent and fast work!

What are the new features? The new features are the implementation respectively the support for ODF forms and fields. Within this new implementations it's possible for .net based applications to use AODL for filling out all kinds of formulars which are inside of OpenDocument files or create new ones from scratch. I'm sure that many developer will see the advantages of this new features and know where it could be used within their projects or applications.

What's also possible? Since the ODF implementation in AODL has reached a really good level there are a lot of scenarios where AODL could be used to bring your .net application and the OpenDocument format together. The following graphic shows a explanation of one of our example applications (available in the source code and the download package). This small example shows you how easy it is to use AODL for filling out all kinds of templates. In our case we only needed a few lines of code to create a little bill generator. I think the graphic speaks for it self and need no further explanation.

OpenDocument based Bill Generator

Further information:

Of course, we also work on a independent Java ( odf4j ) and a UNO based OpenDocument implementation and if you're interested in helping us don't hesitate to join the ODF Toolkit Project. Simply go to the ODF Toolkit Project Page join the Mailing List, talk with us and at least join the project :) .

tags: aodl odf opendocument xml