Summary

Excel Services is a new technology built and conditioned to interact with Excel spreadsheets. One of the defining points of this new technology is that it is designed to use Office SharePoint Server 2007. The programmable parts of Excel Services are hooked into the .NET Framework so that Web Parts can be created to run on SharePoint.

The decision to use SharePoint as a platform for Excel Services, coupled with the extensibility hooks available through the .NET Framework, means that you need to be at least familiar with the basic principles of SharePoint configuration and management. The chapter presented the key parts that you should be familiar with. In any case, configuration and management can be learned without too much effort. You ...

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