Cum Grano Salis

I finally made the jump to Windows Media Center 2 months ago or so and, overall, I am much happier for it. I have had TiVos in my house since 2001 and it has gotten to be that I just never watch live TV anymore. I adore the concept of the DVR and am greatly...

My previous blog entry (which was completely misunderstood by some people who commented - I blame the fact that English is not my native tongue) reminded me of another poor coding behavior. Just so we don't have a repeat of that last post, let me clarify...

EDIT: Contrary to what people understood from this post, it is NOT a "Do not use Generics" post - I think Generics are a GREAT addition to the language/framework and I use them all the time. It is against a very specific usage of Generics Short Answer...

Scenario: You are working on preparing dashboards or uploading workbooks to your SharePoint site for usage with Excel Services. Every now and again, even though you are clearly interacting with the session, EWA will suddenly tell you that the session...

In the ODC 2008, I gave a demo of how to use Excel Web Services from a VBA client - the demo was basically just a managed library that wrapped a generated Web Services proxy. Since Microsoft no longer seems to supply a SOAP toolkit for office, this is...

MSDN has just published a chapter from my book " Professional Excel Services ". You can find it on this link . This wouldn't happened without the great work of Siew Moi Kohr. Thanks Siew!

A long long time ago, in a building far far away, two Jedis developers called Sreepada Santhegudda and Sergei Gundorov showed me a solution they came up with for a single-select Analysis Services filter web part . While SharePoint ships with a set of...