http://blogs.msdn.com/luisbeonservices/archive/tags/Links/default.aspxTags: LinksenCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/luisbeonservices/archive/2006/09/28/pre-requisites.aspxFri, 29 Sep 2006 08:25:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:776553LuisBE1http://blogs.msdn.com/luisbeonservices/comments/776553.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/luisbeonservices/commentrss.aspx?PostID=776553<P>Instead of re-hashing information I've found elsewhere I figured a pre-reqs post would be good.</P> <P>One of our Devs in Excel Services has done a great job with posts on Excel Services User Defined Functions (UDFs) and programmability in general.</P> <P>I use a lot of stuff I learned over on his <A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/cumgranosalis/default.aspx">blog</A>, so you should at least check out the postings below if you're just learning about Excel services:</P> <P><A id=bp___v____ctl0__ctl0_bcr_r___postlist___EntryItems__ctl14_PostTitle href="http://blogs.msdn.com/cumgranosalis/archive/2006/03/24/ExcelServicesHelloWorld.aspx">First "Hello World" code sample with the Excel Services APIs!</A></P> <P><A id=bp___v____ctl0__ctl0_bcr_r___postlist___EntryItems__ctl4_PostTitle href="http://blogs.msdn.com/cumgranosalis/archive/2006/04/04/UdfsPrimer.aspx">How UDFs work in Excel Services - a Primer</A> </P> <P><A id=bp___v____ctl0__ctl0_bcr_r___postlist___EntryItems__ctl2_PostTitle href="http://blogs.msdn.com/cumgranosalis/archive/2006/04/06/ExcelServicesUDFsSupportedTypes.aspx">UDF Rules and guidelines</A> </P> <P><A id=bp___v____ctl0__ctl0_bcr_r___postlist___EntryItems__ctl12_PostTitle href="http://blogs.msdn.com/cumgranosalis/archive/2006/04/12/SessionAndGlobalCachingOnUDFs.aspx">Session State vs. Global State in UDFs</A> </P> <P><A id=bp___v____ctl0__ctl0_bcr_r___postlist___EntryItems__ctl15_PostTitle href="http://blogs.msdn.com/cumgranosalis/archive/2006/07/11/UpdateUdfAssemblies.aspx">How to update UDF assemblies during development</A> </P> <P><A id=bp___v____ctl0__ctl0_bcr_r___postlist___EntryItems__ctl13_PostTitle href="http://blogs.msdn.com/cumgranosalis/archive/2006/07/12/DebugUDFs.aspx">How to debug UDFs</A> </P> <P><A id=bp___v____ctl0__ctl0_bcr_r___postlist___EntryItems__ctl13_PostTitle href="http://blogs.msdn.com/cumgranosalis/archive/2006/08/03/ServerClientUDFsCompat1.aspx">Making Excel Services UDFs work on Excel 2007 - Part 1</A> </P> <P><A id=bp___v____ctl0__ctl0_bcr_r___postlist___EntryItems__ctl8_PostTitle href="http://blogs.msdn.com/cumgranosalis/archive/2006/08/30/ServerClientUDFsCompat2.aspx">Making Excel Services UDFs work on Excel 2007 - Part 2</A> </P> <P><A id=bp___v____ctl0__ctl0_bcr_r___postlist___EntryItems__ctl4_PostTitle href="http://blogs.msdn.com/cumgranosalis/archive/2006/09/07/UDFMethodPersonal.aspx">B2TR changes to UDFs in Excel Services</A></P> <P>...and some MSDN documentation already:</P> <P><A href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/ms517343(office.12).aspx">Creating custom solutions with Excel Services</A></P> <P><A href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft.office.excel.server.webservices(office.12).aspx">Excel Services SDK references!</A></P> <P>...and some known bugs I found :o)</P> <P><A id=bp___v____ctl0__ctl0_bcr_r___postlist___EntryItems__ctl6_PostTitle href="http://blogs.msdn.com/cumgranosalis/archive/2006/07/20/B2ArrayFormulaBug.aspx">Array formula bug on B2 version of Excel Services.</A> </P> <P><A id=bp___v____ctl0__ctl0_bcr_r___postlist___EntryItems__ctl2_PostTitle href="http://blogs.msdn.com/cumgranosalis/archive/2006/09/13/753036.aspx">Client COM Addin UDFs and Server UDFs issues with B2TR</A> </P> <P>&nbsp;</P><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=776553" width="1" height="1">Links