OpenOffice gets .NET support

I was just reading Miguel's blog and found the following link:

http://udk.openoffice.org/cli/cli-uno.html

Project Goals

The CLI-UNO language binding allows to write UNO client programs for OpenOffice.org with languages like C# or VB.NET. The language binding will probably become part of OpenOffice.org 2.0. Until then one can use an OpenOffice.org 1.1 and the language binding package which is separately available from this page.

I like openoffice and have been using it for a long time now. I still have/use MS office and it is a lot more polished but I like knowing about alternatives out there and this news is definately good as it means I'll be able to build .Net apps that tie in with either office package (depending on what the client has).

If you have never used openoffice I recommend you give it a try. It's always a good idea to know what's out there (especially now that they will be adding .net support).

John