EWS and Authored Spreadsheets

There is a good reason why the first EWS exercise only called GetApiVersion. Without explicitly providing increased permissions, clients can access only the GetApiVersion method in the EWS API. To gain extended access to the other methods, you need to configure the relevant permissions using the Shared Services Provider. We talk more about these security aspects in later chapters.

Caution

The URL property of an Excel Web Services proxy generated by Visual Studio points specifically to the Web service, not to any document.

Excel Services development on the .NET platform is about extensibility. .NET developers need to distance themselves from the build-from-scratch mentality that is so pervasive with developer frameworks. ...

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