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• Coding the Excel Services Windows 7 Gadget – Part 4 - Fly-outs

  One of the features gadgets posses is the ability to have a “fly-out” visual aid for “zooming in” or “drilling down” on parts of the gadget. The Excel Services gadget supports that too – for certain types of links. Generally speaking, one should not muck Read More... Posted Friday, November 13, 2009 9:00 AM by Shahar | 0 Comments Filed under: Development, Excel Services, Win7, REST, Excel Services Gadget

• Coding the Excel Services Windows 7 Gadget – Part 3 - Ranges

  The first post in this series talked about how to code the settings window and the second talked about how the chart contents is displayed on the gadget itself. In this post, I will show how ranges are treated when the user requests to see them on the Read More... Posted Thursday, November 12, 2009 9:00 AM by Shahar | 0 Comments Filed under: Development, Excel Services, Win7, REST

• Coding the Excel Services Windows 7 Gadget – Part 2 - Charts

  The first part of this series showed how the code in the Settings form worked in the gadget. In this part, I will start describing how the gadget fetches the requested information from Excel Services and displays it. As a reminder, here’s what the gadget Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 11, 2009 9:00 AM by Shahar | 0 Comments Filed under: Development, Excel Services, Win7, REST, Excel Services Gadget

• Coding the Excel Services Windows 7 Gadget – Part 1 - Settings

  In the next few days, my posts will revolve around the mechanisms that make the Excel Services gadget tick. I won’t talk a whole lot about Gadget development – that could easily take up 4 or 5 posts – I will give a very brief overview though on what a Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 10, 2009 9:00 AM by Shahar | 0 Comments Filed under: Development, Excel Services, Win7, REST, Excel Services Gadget

• Excel Services REST APIs – the basics

  Last week I posted a number of pieces about the various ways the new Excel Services REST APIs allows developers to leverage data and elements from within workbooks by giving direct URLs to them. This post contains details about the available capabilities Read More... Posted Monday, November 02, 2009 9:00 AM by Shahar | 0 Comments Filed under: Development, Excel Services, REST

• Getting ranges via Excel Services REST as well as Charts and Discovery

  The previous post (and the one before ) showed how the Excel Services REST API allows developers to discover information about a workbook as well as get back images of live charts from an Excel Workbook. It is also quite possible to get other types of Read More... Posted Friday, October 30, 2009 9:00 AM by Shahar | 0 Comments Filed under: Development, Excel Services, REST

• Discovery via the Excel Services REST APIs

  In my previous post , I showed what embedding a chart from Excel Services inside a blog looks like. In this post, we will take a step back and explore the discovery mechanisms built into the Excel Services REST APIs. Discovery allows developers and users Read More... Posted Thursday, October 29, 2009 9:00 AM by Shahar | 0 Comments Filed under: Development, Excel Services, REST

• So what does REST on Excel Services look like???

  In my first post about Excel Services and REST , I showed how to construct a simple REST URL pointing directly to a PNG in a workbook. This post was supposed to be about the discovery built into the Excel Services REST API. However, I got a couple of Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 28, 2009 9:00 AM by Shahar | 0 Comments Filed under: Development, Excel Services, Excel, REST

• Welcome to the new Excel Services!

  Now that Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 is done, I have some more time to start posting about all the nice things we have done with SharePoint 2010 – especially with Excel Services. In the coming months, I will post about Excel Services, concentrating Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 27, 2009 9:00 AM by Shahar | 0 Comments Filed under: Development, Excel Services, REST