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Internal Alias Question: Why don't I hafe permissions to open the file on Excel Services?
There was a fellow on one of our internal aliases who hit the following error message: You do not...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 03/08/2007
Making Excel Services UDFs work on Excel Client - Part 3
In two previous posts on the subject, I explained how developers of server UDFs can leverage COM to...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 03/07/2007
Volatile Function Cache Lifetime Demystified
There has been some confusion and misconceptions about what the VFCL (Volatile Function Cache...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 02/01/2007
Exhaustive UDF Data Type explanation
MSDN just published a new white-paper about all the ins and outs of Data Types in Excel Services...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 01/31/2007
AJAX Library for Excel Services
Edit: I moved the download to its own page. I have had this on my table for a while already and have...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 01/29/2007
MSDN Documentation correction - Direct linking the Excel Web Services assembly does not work in SharePoint workflow
Direct Linking allows developers to get better performance and compatibility when interfacing with...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 01/26/2007
New public Excel Services forums on MSDN
We now have forums you can use to ask questions on the MSDN forums site. Dive right in!
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 01/09/2007
Spot The Bug 1: Pocket PC
(Doh! I had a mistake in the code.... Fixed it now. Was supposed to be !Directory.Exists) The...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 12/21/2006
Internal Alias Question: My ECS process takes more than 2gb of memory on an x64 machine!
(The internal alias for Excel Services is becoming quite chatty with questions. I will try to...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 12/19/2006
Another tool for working around Excel Services not supporting QueryTable
Abdullah Kavi (with some help from Bob Archer) from the Excel Test Team has taken Boaz's solution...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 11/27/2006
Impersonating users inside UDFs
In a previous post I described how UDFs can figure out who the user running them is. Luis already...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 11/09/2006
Nice article in CNet - shipping Vista
https://news.com.com/Vistas+last+mile/2009-1016_3-6133357.html?tag=nefd.lede This is probably the...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 11/08/2006
Office 2007 Party - Things to regret at a later date
(Disclaimer: This post contains words, phrases and audio that may offend some people. Please hit...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 11/06/2006
Query Tables work-around for Excel Services
Both in the internal distribution lists and on my blog, the two most insistent question we seem to...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 11/03/2006
New Excel Services blog by Luis
Luis is one of our prolific testers. He keeps thinking up new applications for Excel Services (or...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 10/19/2006
First cartoon about Excel Services - ever
In what must be a first, the iC blog has a longish, somewhat disconcerting cartoon that mentions...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 10/13/2006
Vacation time!
Landed in Israel yesterday, showing off our daughter to our families. Everybody is happy, except for...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 09/16/2006
Apparently I forgot to post about UDF volatility
When I wrote the previous post about returning personal data from UDFs, I suddenly realized that I...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 09/12/2006
More about cookie changes in B2TR
A previous post discussed some changes we made to how we use session cookies in EWA. This post...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 09/05/2006
B2TR Cookie changes in Excel Services EWA
EWA allows users to work on workbooks in a truly thin manner. One of the things that were important...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 08/31/2006
Posts about B2TR
Excel Services Beta2 Technical Refresh (b2tr) has a few new features, featurettes and fixes that...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 08/31/2006
Making Excel Services UDFs work on Excel 2007 - Part 2
In my previous post on this subject, I showed how to adapt simple Excel Services UDFs work on the...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 08/30/2006
List of supported strings to pass to CodeDomProvider.Create()
Could not find one on the interweb, so here goes (first part is the name of the provider, the second...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 08/22/2006
Closing workbooks Asynchronously - VS2003
I just got asked about this today. If you will recall, in a previous post I explained why the...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 08/18/2006
Supported workbook files in Excel Services
Been getting this question on and off now for a couple of weeks, so I thought I would drop a line...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 08/10/2006
Making Excel Services UDFs work on Excel 2007 - Part 1
I have made a few posts about UDFs over the past couple of months. One of the things I neglected to...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 08/03/2006
I hate it when a stupid feature turns out to be useful.
My new pocket pc has a feature (that most cellphones have these day) that allows you to attach an...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 08/03/2006
TMobiles MDA - Fit The Second
Well.. What can I say. I am still not disillusioned with the device. What is it I hear you say? I...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 07/27/2006
Thought of the day: AMD buying ATI for $5.4 billion
Does this mean AMDs chipset drivers will now consist of 130 DLLs that don't know how to work well...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 07/24/2006
Careful.. eBay phishing scam
Just got an email from "eBay".. Email body says: <<<<<<< QUOTE...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 07/23/2006
Search engines do work.
I recently posted about the C++/CLI equivalent keyword for the C# const. Reason for the post was...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 07/20/2006
Array formula bug on B2 version of Excel Services.
I got an email from Dan Ciruli describing a bug he was experiencing with an array-returning UDFs. In...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 07/20/2006
Words I hate
Blogosphere* (I actually hate the word "blog" too, but that's kind of hypocritic what with me having...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 07/20/2006
Abridged version of "Big Lebowski"
*** Viewer discretion advised -- Very Foul language *** (( I am not kidding. If you are offended by...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 07/19/2006
Nice little power toy for VS2005 - Command Shell in the IDE
https://blogs.msdn.com/bertan/archive/2006/07/15/666446.aspx
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 07/16/2006
C++/CLI equivalent of the C# const keyword
Writing this just post because searching the string "C++/CLI" const equivalent on a search engine...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 07/15/2006
How to debug UDFs
Since only Angels get code running right the first time around, it is useful to actually be able to...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 07/12/2006
Exclusive! Name of the next-next generation chip from Intel!
Intel will announce their new chip on the 27th. The name of the new chip: <drum-roll> Core 2...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 07/11/2006
How to update UDF assemblies during development
In previous posts, I showed quite a few examples of how to create UDFs. In a recent email in one of...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 07/11/2006
More ridiculous DMCA usages and more stupid headlines.
DMCA DMCA is an incredibly draconian law both in what practices it turned into crimes and in what...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 06/09/2006
See you in TechEd, in Boston.
If you are interested in Excel Services and are going to be in TechEd, please feel free to drop by...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 06/09/2006
Hillarious link of the month.
Disclaimer: Just to be clear, I do not find stretching excercises to be overly amusing (my mother is...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 05/29/2006