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I had a nice picture I really wanted to turn into a poster by printing it over multiple pages (I seem to have been futsing a lot with pictures these past 2 weeks for some reason ). None of the software I had on my machine seemed to be able to do this...

This post discusses how to call CloseWorkbook asynchronously to increase performance. It also discusses when not to use it....

For some reason on all 6 machines where I do development (<GeekMoment>Home machine, laptop and 4 dev machines at work</GeekMoment>) this option is turned off. Not a big deal of course since there are workarounds, but for my side projects ...

Last night my wife gave birth to a beautiful baby girl named Dani she was so cute that we decided to keep her! See why? :)

At work and at home, I constantly listen to radio from Israel (Galgalatz, if you are interested). Everytime I open any media file though, the radio stops and I need to restart it. Annoying. This utility comes to solve that....

This was asked on one of our DLs. Basically, the question is, "I am trying to invoke a method that takes a reference to a structure (i.e. void MyMethod(ref TimeSspan span) ) - how do I create this type so that I can call the method?". The answer is...

In recent builds, we have been having an awful memory leak in our system. Silvio was debugging it and noticed that we had way too many instances of a specific type in our appdomain (where there should have been zero copies of this item when the system...

Excel Services provides ways of doing Session-Scoped and Global-Scoped caching in your UDFs. This post explains how these work....

Excel Services UDFs can use any dirty trick in the .NET book (as long as not blocked by the admin). In this post, we will show how a UDF can greatly increase performance of multiple calls made to web-services....

My wife is at the last stages of her pregnancy - and she's HUGE. We decided to have a bit of fun before the little creature that's inside her tries to claw it's way out. This is what we came up with: For my homies who root for Hapoel Tel Aviv: ...

I added the ability to resize images to the Nmag utility.

This one just bit us a today. The documentation for TickCount on MSDN say that this value is always positiove: <Quote> The TickCount property handles an overflow condition by resetting its value to zero. The minimum value returned by TickCount...

A description of what's supported (type wise) in Excel UDFs....

A new utility for streamlining the management of Gallery Posts....

UDFs (User Defined Functions) are a great way to extend Excel Services' capabilities. This post describes the basics and shows you how to create a simple DNS Lookup application with Excel....

This is the second of two posts about Session Timeout and Short Session Timeouts in Excel Services. This second post gives ideas about when you may wish to adjust these two values....

Ever thought how cool it would be to integrate Excel Services with Xbox360? Well, we have. Here it is!...