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2010 6

  1. How to treat spaces/single quotes in Sheet names in REST
  2. It’s been a while… Welcome Windows Live Embedding!
  3. Restplorer – visual exploration tool for Excel Services 2010 REST capabilities
  4. Excel Services Gadget download
  5. “Scratch pad” mode in Excel Services 2010 – how to bring it back
  6. Charts based on dynamic ranges in Excel Services 2010

2009 41

  1. You can access arbitrary ranges via REST – here’s the trick
  2. So what else can OpenXML + ASPX + Excel Services can do?
  3. Zeyad Rajabi just got served – Extending the reach of Excel Services with the Open XML SDK – now with more awesomness
  4. “Something interesting” Sample app – Coding – Part 4 – Summary
  5. “Something interesting” Sample app – Coding – Part 3 – Showing the interesting stuff
  6. “Something interesting” Sample app – Coding – Part 2 – coding the publish functionality
  7. “Something interesting” Sample app – Coding – Part 1 – Building the page
  8. Windows 7 useful shortcut – run as admin
  9. Sample application “I found something interesting”
  10. How to edit the content and HTML in a content-web-part in SharePoint 2010
  11. Summary – new programmability capabilities in Excel Services
  12. Using SetParameters with the Excel Web Services APIs
  13. Using the Web Services APIs to open a workbook for editing and set calculation options
  14. What’s new in Excel Web Services in SharePoint 2010
  15. Introduction to the Excel Services JavaScript OM - Part 3 – writing to the workbook
  16. Introduction to the Excel Services JavaScript OM - Part 2 – listening to events
  17. Introduction to the Excel Services JavaScript OM - Part 1 – Humble beginnings
  18. Excel Services REST limitations
  19. Coding the Excel Services Windows 7 Gadget – Part 5 – Next steps
  20. Coding the Excel Services Windows 7 Gadget – Part 4 - Fly-outs
  21. Coding the Excel Services Windows 7 Gadget – Part 3 - Ranges
  22. Coding the Excel Services Windows 7 Gadget – Part 2 - Charts
  23. Coding the Excel Services Windows 7 Gadget – Part 1 - Settings
  24. How to seamlessly embed data from Excel Services spreadsheets into Word
  25. Bringing it all back home – using advanced REST functionality with the Excel Services Gadget
  26. Excel Services Windows 7 Gadget
  27. Advanced Excel Services REST API capabilities – passing parameters to a spreadsheet
  28. Showing Excel ranges in the Excel Services Gadget
  29. Introducing the Excel Services Windows 7 Gadget
  30. Excel Services REST APIs – the basics
  31. Reason #4871 why I hate DHTML
  32. Getting ranges via Excel Services REST as well as Charts and Discovery
  33. Discovery via the Excel Services REST APIs
  34. So what does REST on Excel Services look like???
  35. Welcome to the new Excel Services!
  36. UlsViewer released
  37. Optimizing life – Life in Async
  38. Windows 7 RC – Media Streaming (“Stream” button in Windows Media Player)
  39. Prish Resizer moved to another blog (Also, new version – jpg quality support + custom size through context menu)
  40. What new features would you like to see in Prish Image Resizer?
  41. New version of Prish Image Resizer (x64 support. Unicode support).. It’s been a while..

2008 11

  1. Tips on Excel Services article published on MSDN
  2. New published paper - advanced usage of Excel Services and File Format manipulations
  3. Awesome mouse-pad
  4. Transitioning from TiVo to Windows Media Center
  5. Who's Afraid of the big-bad cast operator?
  6. Using a Generic return type that does not appear in the parameter list - when to use it
  7. Hitting "Session Timeout" errors when you clearly are not supposed to be hitting them
  8. COM Library for Excel Web Services - Use EWS from VBA!
  9. Chapter of the 'Professional Excel Services' book is on MSDN.
  10. Single-select Dimension member Analysis Services Filter Web Part
  11. Using C# 3.0 Extension Methods to make life easier when using optional parameters in Office PIAs

2007 43

  1. Performance Counters in Excel Services - what do they mean
  2. Latest ESCC build (914) - also fixes Invalid Chars in workbooks... Sometimes..
  3. Excel Services Compatibility Checker: Build 914 - AutoFix external references + finer control over available checks
  4. IE Crashing when trying to do certain things in SharePoint?
  5. UDFs in the world of 64bit Excel Services installations
  6. Going to need some help testing the Image Resizer on 64bit
  7. New Compatibility Checker build (904): Fixing External References that were not found.
  8. Excel Services Compatibility Checker sometimes does not find External Links
  9. Updated ImageResizer (Build 831) - now with working "Set Defaults" button
  10. EWA Companion Part 4: Refresh/Recalc functionality
  11. EWA Companion Part 3: Open/Download functionality
  12. EWA Companion Part 2: Save As Functionality
  13. Excel Services Ewa Companion Download Page
  14. Update for the compatibility checker - now also finds protected chart-sheets (Ver 0.1.816)
  15. Small addition to the Excel Services AJAX library
  16. Excel Services AJAX Download Page
  17. Can you be your own parent (And no, this is not a KUOW Weekday discussion)?
  18. What are correlation IDs in Excel Services logs?
  19. Don't place your Web Part assembly in the bin directory...
  20. New ImageResizer build (801) - Added quick-resize from the menu
  21. New Release for the Excel Services Compatibility Checker (Build 731)
  22. Trusted Location Feedback requested: Do you use more than one Trusted Location?
  23. Image Resizer for Vista (and XP) - Just a right click away from Explorer.
  24. Image Resizer Download Page
  25. Internal Alias Question: What does Excel Services with files that don't come from SharePoint?
  26. Vista Time Saver: Copy full file name to clipboard from Explorer.
  27. Excel Services Compatibility Checker Addin - Beta
  28. Excel Services Compatibility Checker Download Page
  29. New Excel 2007 Addin - Remote Ranges
  30. Forum question: Excel Web Services WSDL sans Excel Services
  31. Viewing Excel Files in Document Library history
  32. Forum answer tardiness
  33. Two new books about Excel Services are out
  34. The Excel Services team is hiring! Please inquire inside.
  35. QueryTable tool updated
  36. Internal Alias Question: After importing Excel Web Services, I cant find the objects as they are documented
  37. Internal Alias Question: Why don't I hafe permissions to open the file on Excel Services?
  38. Making Excel Services UDFs work on Excel Client - Part 3
  39. Volatile Function Cache Lifetime Demystified
  40. Exhaustive UDF Data Type explanation
  41. AJAX Library for Excel Services
  42. MSDN Documentation correction - Direct linking the Excel Web Services assembly does not work in SharePoint workflow
  43. New public Excel Services forums on MSDN

2006 89

  1. Spot The Bug 1: Pocket PC
  2. Internal Alias Question: My ECS process takes more than 2gb of memory on an x64 machine!
  3. Another tool for working around Excel Services not supporting QueryTable
  4. Impersonating users inside UDFs
  5. Nice article in CNet - shipping Vista
  6. Office 2007 Party - Things to regret at a later date
  7. Query Tables work-around for Excel Services
  8. New Excel Services blog by Luis
  9. First cartoon about Excel Services - ever
  10. Vacation time!
  11. Apparently I forgot to post about UDF volatility
  12. More about cookie changes in B2TR
  13. B2TR Cookie changes in Excel Services EWA
  14. Posts about B2TR
  15. Making Excel Services UDFs work on Excel 2007 - Part 2
  16. List of supported strings to pass to CodeDomProvider.Create()
  17. Closing workbooks Asynchronously - VS2003
  18. Supported workbook files in Excel Services
  19. Making Excel Services UDFs work on Excel 2007 - Part 1
  20. I hate it when a stupid feature turns out to be useful.
  21. TMobiles MDA - Fit The Second
  22. Thought of the day: AMD buying ATI for $5.4 billion
  23. Careful.. eBay phishing scam
  24. Search engines do work.
  25. Array formula bug on B2 version of Excel Services.
  26. Words I hate
  27. Abridged version of "Big Lebowski"
  28. Nice little power toy for VS2005 - Command Shell in the IDE
  29. C++/CLI equivalent of the C# const keyword
  30. How to debug UDFs
  31. Exclusive! Name of the next-next generation chip from Intel!
  32. How to update UDF assemblies during development
  33. More ridiculous DMCA usages and more stupid headlines.
  34. See you in TechEd, in Boston.
  35. Hillarious link of the month.
  36. How to create a collaborative Excel Services solution
  37. Partial Real-Time Data (RTD) support in Excel Services – Part 2
  38. Partial Real-Time Data (RTD) support in Excel Services – Part 1
  39. Perliminary Excel Services documentation on MSDN2!!
  40. I wonder how horrible of a dad my daughter will think I am when she grows up.
  41. Clearing session cookies with the IE toolbar
  42. Collapsible Forms made easy with WinForms, Layout Panels and AutoSize.
  43. Hebrew words I really miss in English..
  44. Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar - pretty cool
  45. What's next? Binding you to your couch during commercials? Some content providers are slowly going insane.
  46. MSDN TV Demo of Excel Services by Danny Khen and Me
  47. Another reason why using properties that actually do something is bad...
  48. Stupid sensational article headers - for teh proverbial win.
  49. MSDN Blogs look.. Well.. Really bad in IE7
  50. How to add support for External Workbook References to Excel Services
  51. What if TVs were presented like digital cameras...
  52. Using Excel Services CloseWorkbook call asynchronously
  53. Hidden feature of the day – AutoToolboxPopulate
  54. I am a dad for the first time!
  55. New utility - TrayRadio - for all of you who hate it when opening a movie stops your radio
  56. TrayRadio Download Page
  57. Why do I need Type.MakeByRefType()?
  58. The undetectebility of C++/CLI gcroot<> template references.
  59. Session State vs. Global State in UDFs
  60. Abusing my poor pregnant wife. Pictures Inside!
  61. Update to the Nmag utility - it can now resize too.
  62. Environment.TickCount returns negative numbers - MSDN doc error
  63. UDF Rules and guidelines
  64. New utility for working with Galleries on blogs.msdn.com
  65. Nmag Utility - Download Page
  66. How UDFs work in Excel Services - a Primer
  67. Short Session Timeout and Session Timeout in Excel Services - Part 2
  68. Short Session Timeout and Session Timeout in Excel Services - Part 1
  69. How does getting and setting ranges from Excel Services work
  70. Getting Formatted vs. Unformatted data from Excel Services
  71. Don't use the .Url property of an Excel Services proxy for your Workbook Name
  72. Information about the various Excel Service API calls to get info from and to Excel Services
  73. As promised, the VB.NET example for the Programming against Excel Services APIs post.
  74. Code snippets that will help with using Excel Services APIs.
  75. Excel Services related Snippets
  76. First "Hello World" code sample with the Excel Services APIs!
  77. Just finished giving the Excel Services DevCon demo.
  78. Tracing exceptions - guidelines
  79. Office DevCon and a lifted NDA.
  80. Advanced Debugging Part Two – TracePoint Macros that continue execution
  81. Be careful when debugging Visual Studio 2005 created Web-Apps
  82. Advanced Debugging Part One - Cross-function breakpoints
  83. Eliminating CLR bugs in the Whidbey ListView (Virtual mode)
  84. Whidbey Form Designer crashes with inherited form due to asynchronous events
  85. Using the CLR 2.0 Virtual List View
  86. Having problems with MSN searches on MSDN2? Here's a stupid workaround.
  87. That was quick... OneCare subscription will be for three machines.
  88. Thoughts about subscription-based software - OneCare on multiple machines?
  89. Yidish Wikipedia - priceless

2005 12

  1. My S1 TiVo has finally been retired.
  2. What's the bloody point? American Express Gift Card...
  3. Another DRM legistlation. Wonder where it will stop.
  4. I never knew how protected I was from spam.. Until somebody changed the winisp filters...
  5. Copy (Ctrl-C) works in Message Boxes
  6. Defensive Programming - small introduction and one not-so-tall tale
  7. Mailbox too big? MSN Desktop search to the rescue.
  8. How to access the “real” x64 registry from a Win32 .NET Application – Part I
  9. Why does this spelling mistake bother me so much?
  10. ShowDialog() from within a ShowDialog() - both closing
  11. That annoying c:windowsassembly folder
  12. A new blog comes to life!