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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!...

This is the first of two posts about Session Timeout and Short Session Timeouts in Excel Services. This first post discusses what the two timeouts are used for....

Ever wonder how the GetRange family of methods work in the new Excel Services product? Here is a short explanation complete with C# and VB.NET code samples....

You may have wondered what that “formatted” parameter means on the various GetXXX methods the Excel Services API exposes. This post will explain the expected behavior when using this Boolean....

I just got an email about somebody doing this - sure to be a common mistake as people start to use the API more. The .Url property of a Web Service proxy class (the one generated by Visual Studio) is simply where the Web Service is located. In the...

Excel Services supplies eight different methods for accessing and setting data in a workbook to allow the developer to choose which one fits her needs the most....

Excel Services 2007 API usage primer - the VB.NET version of the example posted on Friday....

Snippets for working with Excel Services API....

Primer for working with Excel Services by using the Web Services APIs it exposes....

Just finished doing the DevCon demo together with Danny Khen. People seemed to really like what we showed them. In the next couple of days I will start adding a lot of the stuff we showed there to the blog with step-by-step instructions on what things...

Some very basic guidelines on how to trace exceptions....

Well, when I first started writing this blog, I told you that I am going to post about Excel Services as soon as the NDA is lifted. As you probably know if you are accessing sites that have MSDN in their names, the NDA was lifted and we can now talk about...

How to use Macros in TracePoints to break/continue your program....

While fixing a bug (I have to do that every once in a while. It’s in the contract. I think), I needed to make use of the IsClientConnected property of the HttpResponse object in a WebService sort of project. After trying various things, I still could...

In my ever continuing quest of trying to abolish the need for use of Windbg for application debugging, I keep trying to find various debugging techniques using the VS2005 debugger. Part one of this series contains instructions on how to have advanced...

I discussed using a ListView control in virtual mode in a previous post. When using the ListView control in virtual mode, there are two bugs that can make working with it a bit of a pain. At the end of this post, I have placed a class called SafeListView...

I am porting some code from 1.1 to 2.0 and ran into this problem. After debugging devenv a bit I was able to get a handle on what's going on. When you have an inherited form in the designer, you should make sure that you do as little as possible...

How to use ListView in virtual mode....

So say you search for GetExportedTypes on msn search: http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?FORM=TOOLBR&q=GetExportedTypes First result is what we want. Great. We click it: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library(d=robot)/system.reflection...

As stated in news.coms article , the OneCare service will work for up to three machines. Not a bad deal at all for the price quoted there. Guess one of my machines will have to be defenseless. :)

Just read some a news article about OneCare. I like the idea, and I dont mind paying a subscription if I am getting something out of it - the Backup feature sounds like it could be interesting. That said, I have four PCs at home. I would hate to pay...

I have only been using wikipedia for a year or so and have so far found it to be a relatively good source of information (as long as you do not expect too much). Yesterday I found that there's a Yidish version of Wikipedia. It has got to be one of...

Replaced with an S2 140h TiVo I got for free from TiVo (through their rewards program). Now I have two S2s in my network. Can transfer shows between them etc. Very nice indeed. The S1 was showing its age - it was still kind'a functioning, but the...

So I'm standing in a safeway, at the register. There's an American Express $100 gift card. You pay $105 for it ($5 fee), and get a $100 gift card that can be used anywhere.. Maybe it's a culture gap thing. I have only been in the US for 4 years.. But...