Getting Started with Excel Services

Applies to: SharePoint Server 2010

This section introduces Excel Services — a server technology first introduced in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 — and its architecture. It also maps out the types of development you can do using Excel Services, discusses unsupported features, and gives an overview of business intelligence in Excel Services.

In This Section

• Excel Services Overview
  Learn about this new technology that enables you to load, calculate, and display Excel workbooks on SharePoint Server

• Excel Services Architecture
  Learn how the three components of Excel Services communicate and work together.

• Excel Services Development Roadmap
  Learn about types of development you can do and the most common scenarios for using Excel Web Services.

• Supported and Unsupported Features
  Find out which features of Excel are not supported in this first version of Excel Services.

• Excel Services Blogs, Forums, and Resources
  Get links to blogs that are written about Excel Services.

Reference

• Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.Udf
  Excel Services UDF (user-defined function) attributes.

• Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.WebServices
  The Excel Web Services API.

• Microsoft.Office.Excel.WebUI
  The Excel Web Access Web Part object model.