Jan 082011
For those who envisage building an Excel RTD server, I have written a tutorial and open-sourced the code on SourceForge.
The following topics are covered:
- How RTD servers work
- Architecture
- Excel, Multithreading and callbacks
- Providing easy-to-read function names
- Talking to the GoogleMaps APIs
- Avoiding Application Domain misery
- Embedding a GoogleMap page in an Excel Task Pane
- Creating the Setup project
- Changing the Excel RTD Throttle Interval
- Utility functions
- Building help from the source with Sandcastle
I hope that you will find it useful.