September 2007 - Posts

• Latest ESCC build (914) - also fixes Invalid Chars in workbooks... Sometimes..

  Got this question from somebody who just installed the new version.. Previous builds did not know how to auto-fix invalid characters - with this version you can turn on auto-fix - but it will only work in some cases... When click on the Invalid Character Read More... Posted Friday, September 14, 2007 5:34 PM by Shahar | 0 Comments Filed under: Excel Services, CompatibilityChecker

• Excel Services Compatibility Checker: Build 914 - AutoFix external references + finer control over available checks

  I uploaded version 914 onto the download page . This build adds two new features: Finer control over which features are available (and which are autofixed) as well as adding the ability to "fix" external references/RTD functions. The ribbon changed a Read More... Posted Friday, September 14, 2007 9:00 AM by Shahar | 2 Comments Filed under: Excel Services, CompatibilityChecker

• IE Crashing when trying to do certain things in SharePoint?

  Towards the end of the development cycle of Excel Services, we saw some incredibly intermittent, incredibly rare issues with Internet Explorer crashing when doing certain operations. There were also a few people complaining about this on our forums . Read More... Posted Monday, September 10, 2007 7:22 PM by Shahar | 2 Comments Filed under: Excel Services

• UDFs in the world of 64bit Excel Services installations

  Deepak posted a question on one of my posts and I thought that it was worth posting a blog entry about. I will try to break this down as simply as I can, since there are many permutations and it is not always obvious what's going on. There are also a Read More... Posted Monday, September 10, 2007 12:05 AM by Shahar | 0 Comments Filed under: Excel Services

• Going to need some help testing the Image Resizer on 64bit

  If you have an x64 install and are willing to help, contact me via the contact link at the top of the page. Edit: Got somebody to help. Thanks! Read More... Posted Friday, September 07, 2007 12:31 AM by Shahar | 1 Comments Filed under: Prish Image Resizer

• New Compatibility Checker build (904): Fixing External References that were not found.

  You can download the newest version from the download page . I posted an entry about ESCC being unable to find some cases of External Reference (also called Linked workbooks). This caused workbooks to be marked as compatible with Excel Services even though Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 05, 2007 3:23 PM by Shahar | 0 Comments Filed under: Excel Services, CompatibilityChecker

• Excel Services Compatibility Checker sometimes does not find External Links

  There have been a few internal queries about this and I think I have finally found the problem. The Excel Services Compat Checker will sometimes say that a workbook is compatible with Excel Services, and when that workbook is loaded on the server, it Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 04, 2007 1:04 PM by Shahar | 5 Comments Filed under: Excel Services, CompatibilityChecker