Screen-Cast: Debugging Open XML when the Office Client Crashes
Document formats are pretty complex. It is fairly easy to generate a document that is invalid. In many cases, the Open XML SDK productivity tool will help us by informing us of where the errors are. In other cases, a Microsoft Office client application such as Word or Excel may inform us that we have generated an invalid document. In the worst case, it is possible to generate a document that causes Word or Excel to crash. This screen-cast shows how I debug these types of situations.