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• Excel Services REST limitations

  We just went through two or three weeks worth of posts and I tried to show you some of the new stuff we can do with Excel Services. It’s cool, it’s exciting, it’s great. But here comes the caveat post!! There are a number of things that do not currently Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 17, 2009 9:00 AM by Shahar | 0 Comments Filed under: Excel Services, REST

• 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

• How to seamlessly embed data from Excel Services spreadsheets into Word

  One of the fun things about working on the programmability aspects of Excel Services is realizing just how many interesting scenarios exist that you never thought of originally. I got an IM from Dany Hoter asking for help on an issue he ran into with Read More... Posted Monday, November 09, 2009 9:00 AM by Shahar | 0 Comments Filed under: Excel Services, REST

• Bringing it all back home – using advanced REST functionality with the Excel Services Gadget

  In the past two weeks I detailed both the new REST functionality in Excel Services as well as the Excel Services Gadget (which will hopefully be available for download soon). In the previous post I showed how you can use URL parameters to REST URLs to Read More... Posted Friday, November 06, 2009 9:00 AM by Shahar | 4 Comments Filed under: Excel Services, REST, Excel Services Gadget

• Advanced Excel Services REST API capabilities – passing parameters to a spreadsheet

  So far in the posts discussing Excel Services REST, I showed how easy it was to gain direct access to elements within workbooks. One immediately sees the potential of really releasing the data and the visualization that’s locked within Excel and making Read More... Posted Thursday, November 05, 2009 9:00 AM by Shahar | 0 Comments Filed under: Excel Services, REST

• Showing Excel ranges in the Excel Services Gadget

  The last post I wrote, I showed the Excel Services gadget and how it can be a great tool for bringing your Excel data right to the desktop. In this short post, I will show some of the other capabilities it has – namely, the ability to show ranges on top Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 04, 2009 2:27 AM by Shahar | 0 Comments Filed under: Excel Services, Win7, REST, Excel Services Gadget

• Introducing the Excel Services Windows 7 Gadget

  The past few posts have shown some of the basic REST functionality you can expect to get from the new Excel Services that will ship as part of SharePoint 2010. Before going into some of the more advanced features (well.. feature) of Excel Services REST, Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 03, 2009 9:00 AM by Shahar | 5 Comments Filed under: 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

• What’s coming to Cum Grano Salis this week..

  Just thought I’d drop a quick note as to what to expect to see this week.. Today there will be a post about the basics of REST – essentially a reference manual to all the basic capabilities of the API. After that, there will be two posts about the Excel Read More... Posted Monday, November 02, 2009 8:00 AM by Shahar | 0 Comments Filed under: 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