Excel Services 2010 Overview

re: Excel Services 2010 Overview

Joseph Chirilov — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:34:28 GMT

Dean: We are still working on finalizing licensing and will share this information as soon as it becomes available.

re: Excel Services 2010 Overview

Joseph Chirilov — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:33:26 GMT

Apologies for the delay in responding.

Mike: Thanks for your feedback. Currently the programmability model that exists for the desktop version of Excel, including VSTO, does not work on the server.

Sachin: I issue with listboxes has not been addressed in Excel 2010.

Muhammad: Slicers are only available in Excel 2010.

re: Excel Services 2010 Overview

Muhammad Usman — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:35:08 GMT

Is there any option that we able to use slicer option in Excel 2007

re: Excel Services 2010 Overview

Sachin Acharya — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:01:41 GMT

Joseph,

Here is a question about VBA. I am not sure if it fits in here.

We all are hoping to see a solution for the known issues with listbox column headers:

1. You cannot write captions to the column headers. There should ideally be an array object with a Caption property that values can be set to at run time.

2. The column headers should not be a part of the actual list, meaning the users should not be to select it. As of now we have to prevent them from doing this programmatically.

Thanks for your comments on these issues.

re: Excel Services 2010 Overview

Mike Becker — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:09:03 GMT

Will either of these 2 solutions provide compatibility with the Visual Studio Tools For Office programming model? For example, will it provide the capability of extending the Ribbon UI, adding CommandBars and supporting XML Map's?

re: Excel Services 2010 Overview

Dean — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:27:19 GMT

What will the licensing requirements be for these new offerings in 2010?

re: Excel Services 2010 Overview

Joseph Chirilov — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:05:56 GMT

Rich: The collaboration improvements, I'm referring here to Excel Web App, do indeed include real-time shared editing of spreadsheets. For the 2010 release, Excel Web App does not offer any locking mechanisms during collaborative editing. I'll have more details around this when we talk about Excel Web App in a couple weeks. I would love to hear more about your usage of collaborative editing and your need for locking mechanisms. Feel free to reply here or drop me a message by clicking on the e-mail button at the top of this page. Thanks.

re: Excel Services 2010 Overview

Rich Winslow — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:38:36 GMT

Does the Ajax optimization and collaboration improvements include real-time sharing of documents with locked cells for another user changing a cell on the same worksheet you might be working on. This has been offered in OpenOffice for a couple of years now; I've been hoping it would show up in Excel since we have clients that share Excel worksheets within Sharepoint.