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Tips on Excel Services article published on MSDN
This article contains some basic troubleshooting/tips on using Excel Services.
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 05/23/2008
New published paper - advanced usage of Excel Services and File Format manipulations
Sergei Gundorov (whom you may remember from a previous post) has published a paper on MSDN where he...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 05/06/2008
Awesome mouse-pad
We have a surplus computer store near my house which I like mostly because their pricing on cables...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 04/24/2008
Transitioning from TiVo to Windows Media Center
I finally made the jump to Windows Media Center 2 months ago or so and, overall, I am much happier...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 03/25/2008
Who's Afraid of the big-bad cast operator?
My previous blog entry (which was completely misunderstood by some people who commented - I blame...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 03/24/2008
Using a Generic return type that does not appear in the parameter list - when to use it
EDIT: Contrary to what people understood from this post, it is NOT a "Do not use Generics" post - I...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 03/23/2008
Hitting "Session Timeout" errors when you clearly are not supposed to be hitting them
Scenario: You are working on preparing dashboards or uploading workbooks to your SharePoint site for...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 03/18/2008
COM Library for Excel Web Services - Use EWS from VBA!
In the ODC 2008, I gave a demo of how to use Excel Web Services from a VBA client - the demo was...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 03/05/2008
Chapter of the 'Professional Excel Services' book is on MSDN.
MSDN has just published a chapter from my book "Professional Excel Services". You can find it on...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 03/04/2008
Single-select Dimension member Analysis Services Filter Web Part
A long long time ago, in a building far far away, two Jedis developers called Sreepada Santhegudda...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 03/02/2008
Using C# 3.0 Extension Methods to make life easier when using optional parameters in Office PIAs
Gabhan Berry (read his blog - he has lots of Excel programmability related information in there!)...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 02/29/2008
Performance Counters in Excel Services - what do they mean
Excel Services comes with a few performance counters designed to let an administrator know the load...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 12/16/2007
Latest ESCC build (914) - also fixes Invalid Chars in workbooks... Sometimes..
Got this question from somebody who just installed the new version.. Previous builds did not know...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 09/14/2007
Excel Services Compatibility Checker: Build 914 - AutoFix external references + finer control over available checks
I uploaded version 914 onto the download page. This build adds two new features: Finer control over...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 09/14/2007
IE Crashing when trying to do certain things in SharePoint?
Towards the end of the development cycle of Excel Services, we saw some incredibly intermittent,...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 09/10/2007
UDFs in the world of 64bit Excel Services installations
Deepak posted a question on one of my posts and I thought that it was worth posting a blog entry...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 09/10/2007
Going to need some help testing the Image Resizer on 64bit
If you have an x64 install and are willing to help, contact me via the contact link at the top of...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 09/07/2007
New Compatibility Checker build (904): Fixing External References that were not found.
You can download the newest version from the download page. I posted an entry about ESCC being...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 09/05/2007
Excel Services Compatibility Checker sometimes does not find External Links
There have been a few internal queries about this and I think I have finally found the problem. The...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 09/04/2007
Updated ImageResizer (Build 831) - now with working "Set Defaults" button
After a few people complained, I was able to illicit the help of one Paul Rubenstein to help figure...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 09/01/2007
EWA Companion Part 4: Refresh/Recalc functionality
In the first part of this post series I showed the EWA companion and its various capabilities. In...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 08/22/2007
EWA Companion Part 3: Open/Download functionality
In the first part of this post series I showed the EWA companion and its various capabilities. In...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 08/21/2007
EWA Companion Part 2: Save As Functionality
In a previous post I discussed the EWA companion and how to set it up for saving back to SharePoint....
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 08/20/2007
Excel Services Ewa Companion Download Page
08.17.2007 First release. (See the Read-me for installation instructions) EwaCompanion.zip
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 08/17/2007
Update for the compatibility checker - now also finds protected chart-sheets (Ver 0.1.816)
Sherman (one of our funkied-hair testers) found this issue with the compatibility checker - it...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 08/16/2007
Small addition to the Excel Services AJAX library
Hi, I am doing some work on a new sample (called EwaCompanion, more on that soon). As part of that...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 08/11/2007
Excel Services AJAX Download Page
This page contains the link to the Excel Services AJAX JavaScript download. ExcelServicesAjax.zip
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 08/10/2007
Can you be your own parent (And no, this is not a KUOW Weekday discussion)?
No you can't. Or can you? No, you can't. Just ran into this bug in my code: I was getting an...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 08/02/2007
What are correlation IDs in Excel Services logs?
If you ever looked at Excel Services logs on a SharePoint 2007 box (also called ULS logs), you...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 08/02/2007
Don't place your Web Part assembly in the bin directory...
Just got bitten by this. Spent the better portion of an hour trying to figure out why I was getting...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 08/02/2007
New ImageResizer build (801) - Added quick-resize from the menu
Download page Small addition to the shell extension for resizing the images: You can now quickly...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 08/01/2007
New Release for the Excel Services Compatibility Checker (Build 731)
I added a new check to the compatibility checker - it now knows how to look for illegal characters -...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 07/31/2007
Trusted Location Feedback requested: Do you use more than one Trusted Location?
I was wondering if people using Excel Services could post comments or just contact me relating to...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 07/31/2007
Image Resizer for Vista (and XP) - Just a right click away from Explorer.
You can download the resizer here. I don't know about you, but I am sorely missing the XP toy for...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 07/30/2007
Image Resizer Download Page
Image Resizer has moved. You can find the downloads here.
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 07/29/2007
Internal Alias Question: What does Excel Services with files that don't come from SharePoint?
The following question was asked on the internal alias: Q: When I open a workbook in the EWA web...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 07/18/2007
Vista Time Saver: Copy full file name to clipboard from Explorer.
Thought I'd drop a line, since this is a feature I have been looking for FOREVER and never got...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 07/18/2007
Excel Services Compatibility Checker Addin - Beta
One of the feedback I hear most often is about just how hard it is to check and see if a file can...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 06/29/2007
Excel Services Compatibility Checker Download Page
Version 0.1.914.0 Add ability to fix external references + allow finer control over what checks are...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 06/29/2007
New Excel 2007 Addin - Remote Ranges
The following video shows (in a somewhat grainy manner) the Addin in motion. There are also captions...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 06/12/2007
Forum question: Excel Web Services WSDL sans Excel Services
Now that I can finally answer the forums again, there was a question about how to get to the Excel...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 06/06/2007
Viewing Excel Files in Document Library history
Charles East from Kynetix pointed my attention to what seems (to me and to him) like a bug. If you...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 05/29/2007
Forum answer tardiness
I wanted to drop a short line about why me (and other members of the team) are not answering on the...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 05/10/2007
Two new books about Excel Services are out
These two Excel Services books are out (or will very soon be). I decided to use this space to...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 04/09/2007
The Excel Services team is hiring! Please inquire inside.
My team is looking is looking for talented developers to work on cutting edge web-based technologies...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 04/05/2007
QueryTable tool updated
Abdullah has sent me a new version of his querytable conversion tool a while ago and I forgot to...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 04/05/2007
Internal Alias Question: After importing Excel Web Services, I cant find the objects as they are documented
Got this today in the internal distribution list: Q: After importing your Web services and trying to...
Author: Shahar Prish Date: 03/14/2007