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How to create a collaborative Excel Services solution
Excel Services allows users to open workbooks and watch them using only a browser. The solution I...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 05/26/2006
Partial Real-Time Data (RTD) support in Excel Services – Part 2
In a previous post, I explained the basics behind adapting the RTD mechanism Excel Client has into...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 05/24/2006
Partial Real-Time Data (RTD) support in Excel Services – Part 1
In this first post, I will describe the reasons behind not supporting RTD, I will explain how RTD...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 05/23/2006
Perliminary Excel Services documentation on MSDN2!!
The good guys at UA have done an awesome job bringing this all together. Enjoy! Creating custom...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 05/22/2006
I wonder how horrible of a dad my daughter will think I am when she grows up.
It was just too easy to not do it... Maybe I should hide all these pictures when she turns 14 or she...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 05/20/2006
Clearing session cookies with the IE toolbar
One of the nicer features I found in the IE toolbar is the ability to clear all session cookies. In...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 05/18/2006
Collapsible Forms made easy with WinForms, Layout Panels and AutoSize.
You know what a collapsible window is – it’s usually used to show advanced features or to show extra...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 05/18/2006
Hebrew words I really miss in English..
Generally speaking, English is much richer than Hebrew*. The number of words in English has been...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 05/16/2006
Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar - pretty cool
Just thought I would drop a line about this guy. If you are misfortunate enough to have to do some...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 05/09/2006
What's next? Binding you to your couch during commercials? Some content providers are slowly going insane.
https://news.com.com/Someone+has+to+pay+for+TV--but+who/2100-1041_3-6069449.html?tag=nefd.top...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 05/08/2006
MSDN TV Demo of Excel Services by Danny Khen and Me
They even put it up on Office Development Center. Well.. I learnt the following doing this:1....
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 05/05/2006
Another reason why using properties that actually do something is bad...
I was debugging some code in a product we are dependant on and came across a property called...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 05/03/2006
Stupid sensational article headers - for teh proverbial win.
https://news.com.com/X-Men+may+be+closer+than+you+think/2100-1008_3-6067665.html?tag=nefd.top What...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 05/02/2006
MSDN Blogs look.. Well.. Really bad in IE7
No other word for it. It just looks really bad... I hope they fix it soon, but until then, my...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 05/02/2006
How to add support for External Workbook References to Excel Services
In v1, Excel Services will not support External Workbook References. This is due to various reasons,...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 05/02/2006
What if TVs were presented like digital cameras...
I was just thinking about this a couple of days ago. How dumb would it be if, instead of using...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 05/01/2006
Using Excel Services CloseWorkbook call asynchronously
When using the Excel Service API, it is advisable the you always call CloseWorkbook() after you are...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 04/28/2006
Hidden feature of the day – AutoToolboxPopulate
For some reason on all 6 machines where I do development (<GeekMoment>Home machine, laptop and...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 04/24/2006
I am a dad for the first time!
Last night my wife gave birth to a beautiful baby girl named Dani she was so cute that we decided to...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 04/19/2006
New utility - TrayRadio - for all of you who hate it when opening a movie stops your radio
(You can go straight to the download page) I have been meaning to write this for a while. It's a...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 04/17/2006
TrayRadio Download Page
This is the download page for the TrayRadio utility. Version 1.0.415.0 Initial offering, basic...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 04/15/2006
Why do I need Type.MakeByRefType()?
This was asked on one of our DLs. Basically, the question is, "I am trying to invoke a method that...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 04/14/2006
The undetectebility of C++/CLI gcroot<> template references.
In recent builds, we have been having an awful memory leak in our system. Silvio was debugging it...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 04/13/2006
Session State vs. Global State in UDFs
I already posted about what sort of functions can be created for Excel Services. Now I wanted to add...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 04/12/2006
Abusing my poor pregnant wife. Pictures Inside!
My wife is at the last stages of her pregnancy - and she's HUGE. We decided to have a bit of fun...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 04/10/2006
Update to the Nmag utility - it can now resize too.
I added the ability to resize images to the Nmag utility.
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 04/07/2006
Environment.TickCount returns negative numbers - MSDN doc error
This one just bit us a today. The documentation for TickCount on MSDN say that this value is always...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 04/07/2006
UDF Rules and guidelines
In a previous post, I showed an example of how to create a DNS lookup User Defined Function (UDF)...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 04/06/2006
New utility for working with Galleries on blogs.msdn.com
Download the utility at the Nmag Download Page. I started to get really annoyed by the UI that...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 04/05/2006
Nmag Utility - Download Page
This is the main download page for the Nmag utility. !!!!!!!!!BETA WARNING!!!!!!!! This is only beta...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 04/05/2006
How UDFs work in Excel Services - a Primer
In the past few posts, I described the various ways to communicate with Excel Services from without...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 04/04/2006
Short Session Timeout and Session Timeout in Excel Services - Part 2
This is the table I promised in my previous post. It basically gives you some ideas about when you...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 04/03/2006
Short Session Timeout and Session Timeout in Excel Services - Part 1
When you configure your Excel Services installation, you will notice that one of the configurations...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 03/31/2006
How does getting and setting ranges from Excel Services work
When I discussed the various methods supported by Excel Services for getting and setting data on a...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 03/30/2006
Getting Formatted vs. Unformatted data from Excel Services
The GetXXX family of methods in Excel Services API allows you to retrieve data from an opened...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 03/29/2006
Don't use the .Url property of an Excel Services proxy for your Workbook Name
I just got an email about somebody doing this - sure to be a common mistake as people start to use...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 03/29/2006
Information about the various Excel Service API calls to get info from and to Excel Services
In a previous post, I talked about how to work with an Excel Model on the server and promised I...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 03/28/2006
As promised, the VB.NET example for the Programming against Excel Services APIs post.
On Friday I posted a primer on how to work against the new Excel Services APIs. I promised I would...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 03/27/2006
Code snippets that will help with using Excel Services APIs.
I published two C# snippets for helping with writing code against Excel Services APIs. If more get...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 03/27/2006
Excel Services related Snippets
Snippets are small coding helpers that you can use to make development a little faster. In this...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 03/26/2006
First "Hello World" code sample with the Excel Services APIs!
Welcome to the new world of Excel Services in the Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 product...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 03/25/2006
Just finished giving the Excel Services DevCon demo.
Just finished doing the DevCon demo together with Danny Khen. People seemed to really like what we...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 03/23/2006
Tracing exceptions - guidelines
(Don't know what Excel Services are? Find out!) Since Excel Services (in the Microsoft Office...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 03/23/2006
Office DevCon and a lifted NDA.
Well, when I first started writing this blog, I told you that I am going to post about Excel...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 03/22/2006
Advanced Debugging Part Two – TracePoint Macros that continue execution
TracePoints are a new feature in Visual Studio 2005. One of the things it allows you to do is to...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 03/22/2006
Be careful when debugging Visual Studio 2005 created Web-Apps
While fixing a bug (I have to do that every once in a while. It’s in the contract. I think), I...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 03/21/2006
Advanced Debugging Part One - Cross-function breakpoints
In my ever continuing quest of trying to abolish the need for use of Windbg for application...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 03/20/2006