Programming Excel Services

Download or read book Professional Excel Services written by Shahar Prish and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Market_Desc: · Primary Audience: The target readership includes SQL Programmers, Report Developers, software integrators, and sophisticated Microsoft Excel Users.· Secondary Audience: Excel users and programmers. Special Features: · Authored by THE expert on the topic, Shahar Prish. He is the Senior Software Development Engineer for Excel Services.· Fills an unmet need in the market for comprehensive coverage on the technical and strategic features vital to Excel Services.· Provides readers with extensive and in-depth information calculating Excel workbooks on a server using Excel Client, rewriting Excel models into code, writing generic solutions for calculating sheets, and by covering all programming aspects of Excel Services - from APIs through UDFs.· Audience - Sophisticated Microsoft Excel users, SQL Programmers, IT Professionals, and report Developers will use this book to get the most out of Excel Services. About The Book: Excel Services has the potential to revolutionize many industries because Excel 2007 has a number of key investments around UDFs, or User Defined Functions. They revolve around two main areas: allowing UDFs to take advantage of Excel improvements, and extending those UDF-based Excel solutions to the server side with Excel Services.This book instructs readers on how to develop solutions using Excel Services. It covers all facets of programming Excel Services to unlock the power behind the software. To this point, these solutions have definitely been lacking in areas such as running Excel on Excel Client, rewriting Excel models into code, and writing generic solutions for calculating sheets. This book covers ways to use the Services to get around any stumbling blocks.