Excel Services 2010 has a new RESTful API that allows for easy access to your excel data and integration into the rest of your programs.

1. Excel Services
Needs a REST
Andrew Hoffman
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2. REST
REPRESENTATIONAL
STATE TRANSFER

3. MVC Crash Course
(Model, View, Controller)
Controller
Model
View
Separation Of Activity

4. Nouns & Verbs

5. Nouns
Request Description
Player.html Returns list in HTML
Player.xml Returns list in XML
/players/veasley-willie
Players
/players/gordon-eric
/schools/butler
Schools
/schools/indiana

6. VERBS
GET READ
POST
PUT
CREATE
UPDATE
CRUD
DELETE DELETE

7. VERBS
GET READ
POST
PUT
CREATE
UPDATE
CRUD
DELETE DELETE

8. Delicious GET Examples
https://user:passwd@api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/
suggest?url=http://yahoo.com/
https://user:passwd@api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/recent
https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all?hashes

9. EXCEL REST
http://myserver/_vti_bin/ExcelRest.aspx/

10. Rest Web Service
http://<my_server>/_vti_bin/
ExcelRest.aspx/<PATH>/<FILENAME>/
model
http://win-mci1glbb9fs/_vti_bin/
ExcelRest.aspx/Workbooks/
test.xlsx/model

11. Return Data
HTML
XML
ATOM XML
CHARTS!!!!!!

12. Getting & Setting Values
Ranges('[SHEET]![TOPLEFT]%7C[BOTTOMRIGHT]')?
Ranges('[SHEET]![CELL]')=<VALUE>

13. Charts
/model/Charts(‘<CHART NAME>’)

14. REST Resources
http://www.techbubbles.com/
softwarearchitecture/rest-overview/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/
dd943053.aspx

15. Excel Services
Resources
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/
ee556820(office.14).aspx