After a few people complained, I was able to illicit the help of one Paul Rubenstein to help figure out what was wrong. I sent him a debug version of the resizer and he installed it, hit the repro and sent me the log files. That in turn helped me figure...

In the first part of this post series I showed the EWA companion and its various capabilities. In this part, I will delve deeper into the "Automatic Refresh/Recalc" capabilities of the companion. This feature is divided into two parts - refresh and recalc...

I have made two examples of Code Art - taking a piece of code that does something and placing the text in such a manner that it conveys the idea of the program. The reason it sucks so much more than ASCII art is two-fold: a. It is very hard to do significant...

In the first part of this post series I showed the EWA companion and its various capabilities. In this part, I will delve deeper into the "Open" functionality of the EWA Companion web-part. There are a few reasons behind adding the Open command to the...

In a previous post I discussed the EWA companion and how to set it up for saving back to SharePoint. This post will show the next set of capabilities which is the ability to Save As (actually, it exports or saves under another name - the new workbook...

Download the Ewa Companion Over the past year or so, some requests have been voiced by the community again and again. Some of these related to the EWA, asking for extra functionality that is not there by default. To that extent, I decided to write the...

Sherman (one of our funkied-hair testers) found this issue with the compatibility checker - it ignored chart-sheets that are protected. These would cause the workbook to be un-loadable by Excel Services, but is not detected by the compatibility checker...

Hi, I am doing some work on a new sample (called EwaCompanion, more on that soon). As part of that work, I had to add a few things to the AJAX library and fix a few issues. The main addition is the support for the .refreshAll() method which will execute...

When trying to stream back the resulting byte-array of the GetWorkbook() from ASP.NET, you may run into this issue. I just ran into it yesterday and today I saw a post about it in the Excel Services forums , so I thought I'd explain what's probably going...

No you can't. Or can you? No, you can't. Just ran into this bug in my code: I was getting an annoying StackOverflow, but it was hard to figure out why because the debugger was not willing to show me the originating code - just the recurring call to the...

If you ever looked at Excel Services logs on a SharePoint 2007 box (also called ULS logs), you probably saw at the end of some of the log lines a GUID that looked a little like this: 00000001-5f2b-e49c-0000-000050f7b00b This GUID is used by Excel Services...

Just got bitten by this. Spent the better portion of an hour trying to figure out why I was getting cryptic "That assembly does not allow partially trusted callers" errors in my SharePoint logs. Was following some MSDN documentation about this, and placed...

Download page Small addition to the shell extension for resizing the images: You can now quickly resize images w/o going through the UI and choosing options. Note that you will need to set your defaults the first time you do this. Also note...