Over on Brian Jones' blog there are two recent articles that may be of interest to our readers here. They deal with using the Open XML SDK to programmatically interact with Excel's XML-based file format. One deals with "document assembly", which is essentially building a file mostly...
Today's author, Chris Rae, a Program Manager on the Excel team, talks about using Perl code to read Excel's new file format. The OOXML Format As most readers will know, we spent a lot of time during the development of Office 2007 in creating and documenting a new XML-based file format (Office...
There's a new article up on MSDN that describes a custom solution built by the IT department here at Microsoft that uses Excel Services. Rather than re-paraphrase, I'll "borrow" liberally from Shahar's description : The solution is probably one of the most advanced implementation...