AODL has been started by Lars Behrmann as a independent C# library for all kinds of ODF processing and in February 2007 it has become the .net module of the OpenOffice.org ODF Toolkit project. The library is completly written in pure C# and can be used to extend your .net based software to support the OpenDocument Format. To use AODL within your projects respectively software there is no need of a deep knowlegde of the OpenDocument Format itself. It would be helpfull to understand what's going behind the scenes and for writing your own extensions, but as mentioned before this isn't a fundamental requirement.

Up to now, the following fundamental operations are supported by AODL:

• Creating new documents in the text and the spreadsheet format.
• Loading and manipulating documents in the text and spreadsheet (not complete yet) format.
• Export loaded or created documents into the HTML format (text and spreadsheet documents).
• Export loaded or created documents into the PDF Format. (this is in an early state of implementation and only available for text documents)

Further information like Features, Code Snippets, ... and of course the answer on where to get the code can be all reached from the AODL Wiki Page on OpenOffice.org Goto AODL Wiki Page