LuisBE on Services

Excel Services Calculation Issue Update & Fix!

LuisBE — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:19:00 GMT

Please check out David's post for links to the fixes. http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/archive/2007/10/09/calculation-issue-update-fix-available.aspx...(read more)

Calculation Issue Post on Excel Blog

LuisBE — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:31:00 GMT

This same calculation issue affects Excel Services, and is being addressed concurrently. http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/archive/2007/09/25/calculation-issue-update.aspx...(read more)

Sponsor me for JDRF's Beat the Bridge!

LuisBE — Fri, 11 May 2007 23:11:00 GMT

Dear Friends and Family, I recently accepted the challenge to raise funds to support the JDRF Northwest - Nordstrom Beat the Bridge in its efforts to find a cure for diabetes and it's deadly complications. Every day 35 more children are diagnosed with...(read more)

Excel Services Team Looking for Customer Connections!

LuisBE — Thu, 10 May 2007 21:00:00 GMT

The Excel services team is looking for companies that are using Excel services and are willing to share their feedback with the team. Feedback can be in the form of visits to the customer sites, conference calls or special events that will be organized...(read more)

New blog from an Excel Services Tester

LuisBE — Wed, 02 May 2007 05:06:00 GMT

Another one of our prolific Excel Services testers has started up a blog here: http://blogs.msdn.com/sherder/ Go check it out! I've been a little dark on the blog lately in order to focus 100% on planning for O14, but I'll be back soon!...(read more)

Microsoft Office is Searching for Talented Devs!

LuisBE — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:24:00 GMT

Microsoft Office is looking for talented developers to work on cutting edge web-based technologies that integrate with Excel and Access. It’s a great opportunity to work on cool new features and build great products. You may have already heard about Excel...(read more)

Excel Services step-by-step guides

LuisBE — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:19:00 GMT

Technet now has some interesting tutorials for Excel Services. Check them out at http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/eea3ace8-0863-429a-b1e8-041254ed2fc41033.mspx?mfr=true Enjoy!...(read more)

New MSDN Article on Extending Excel Services Through UDFs

LuisBE — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:11:00 GMT

From yours truly: Summary: Optimize version 1 of the Excel Services programmability framework to extend Microsoft Office Excel 2007 and Excel Services functionalities to work with SharePoint lists, query tables on Excel Services, external workbook references,...(read more)

Enable Paging in Your Array Formula UDFs

LuisBE — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:04:00 GMT

As I alluded to earlier, one way to overcome the limitation that array formulas do not dynamically resize to fit the dimensionality of the data being returned by your UDF is to use paging. Here is a simple way of enabling paging, without having to modify...(read more)

Consuming Business Data Catalog Entities in Excel Services

LuisBE — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 07:47:00 GMT

One of the coolest (only?) SharePoint external data features is the Business Data Catalog (BDC). The BDC is brand new with SharePoint 2007, and is not yet fully integrated into Excel and Excel Services... though, if you've read one or two other entries...(read more)

Excel Services Related Books in the Pipeline

LuisBE — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 02:08:00 GMT

Here are a few books being worked on about Excel Services: http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Excel-Services-Liviu-Asnash/dp/0470104899/sr=8-1/qid=1168539718/ref=sr_1_1/105-2258527-0791610?ie=UTF8&s=books http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Excel-Services-Shahar-Prish/dp/0470104864/sr=1-1/qid=1168539759/ref=sr_1_1/105-2258527-0791610?ie=UTF8&s=books...(read more)

New Excel Services MSDN Forum!

LuisBE — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 05:47:00 GMT

MSDN has created a forum for Excel Services related discussion, you can find it at: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=1208&SiteID=1 We're working on a more readable shortcut, and it's empty as of right now but you can expect...(read more)

v1 Feedback & Requests for v2 of Excel Services!

LuisBE — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:56:00 GMT

<UPDATE: Reworded the post to stay away from any legal issues :o) > We are currently working on planning for the next version of Excel Services and I would greatly appreciate any v1 feedback as well as requests you would like to see implemented...(read more)

Working Around Dimensional Limitations of Using Array Formulas for UDF Return Values.

LuisBE — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:42:00 GMT

As you have noticed, many of my samples below use an Array Formula in Excel to retrieve an array of data returned by your UDF code. The biggest issue with taking this approach is that you need to know ahead of time the exact dimensions of the data being...(read more)

Using UDFs and Excel Formulas to Get a Query Table on Excel Services

LuisBE — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 22:36:00 GMT

As you may or may not know by now, one of the limitations in this version of Excel Services is the inability to publish workbooks containing Query Tables (tables that have external data as their source). There have been numerous blog posts on the web...(read more)