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Chapter 1: An Introduction to Excel Services (Programming Excel Services)and Chapter 3: Excel Web Access (Programming Excel Services) are excerpts from Programming Excel Services*, from* MSPress (ISBN 9780735624078, copyright MSPress 2007, all rights reserved).

Learn how to use Excel Services to add spreadsheets and workbooks to your enterprise dashboards and portals. You get real-world examples and code samples to help you enable business intelligence on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 applications—and simplify information sharing and reuse.

Discover how to:

  • Configure SharePoint Products and Technologies, and provision Excel Services.

  • Build and debug Web Parts derived from Microsoft .NET Framework or SharePoint base classes.

  • Customize and embed objects into Web Parts.

  • Extract workbook contents and bind the results to user interface controls with Excel Web Services.

  • Load workbooks, perform calculations, and refresh data using Excel Calculation Service.

  • Configure Code Access Security for managed user controls.

  • Use asynchronous Web Parts to automate Microsoft Office applications.

PLUS—Get Microsoft Visual C# and Visual Basic code samples on the Web.

About the Author

Alvin J. Bruney is a Microsoft MVP for Microsoft ASP.NET and the author of two other books on programming Microsoft Office. He is a consultant for a large North American financial institution where he helps train professional developers on the Microsoft .NET Framework. Alvin regularly contributes to asp.netPro magazine and other industry publications.

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