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Excel as a database, Part 2
Neopoleon : Excel as a database
“As a developer, you’ve probably, at some unfortunate point in your life (possibly several points, actually), been handed an Excel file that has been crammed full of “data” by someone in marketing and told to “do something with it.”"
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A tale of Excel
“Bill Gates was amazingly technical. He understood Variants, and COM objects, and IDispatch and why Automation is different than vtables and why this might lead to dual interfaces. He worried about date functions. He didn’t meddle in software if he trusted the people who were working on it, but you couldn’t bullshit him for a minute because he was a programmer. A real, actual, programmer.”
Joel Spolsky writes a very interesting essay on software development, management and, of course, Excel.
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Why you shouldn’t use Office Automation
A short note from the author:
Considerations for server-side Automation of Office
“Microsoft does not currently recommend, and does not support, Automation of Microsoft Office applications from any unattended, non-interactive client application or component (including ASP, DCOM, and NT Services), because Office may exhibit unstable behavior and/or deadlock when run in this environment.
If you are building a solution that runs in a server-side context, you should attempt wherever possible to use components that have been made safe for unattended execution, or find alternatives that allow at least a part of the code to run client-side. If you choose to use an Office application from a server-side solution, you will find that it lacks many of the necessary capabilities to run successfully, and you will be taking risks with the stability of your overall solution.”
Further incentives on quitting Office Automation would be useless.
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5 reasons why Excel 2007 is better. Or not.
5 reasons why Excel 2007 smokes the web2.0 competition… and why it may not matter is an interesting peak into the improvements Excel 2007 is supposed to bring in December. ZuluInSiliconValley points out
- Conditional Formatting
- More rows
- Previewing
- Ribbon and menu bars
- Charting
vs
- Sharing
- Search
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