As many of you know, connecting data to Visio diagrams is easy and sharing them via Visio Services in SharePoint is even easier. But what happens when you decide to move a data connected Visio diagram to another site, site collection, or even a different...

Following up on an article I wrote earlier about handling Visio 2013 files in SharePoint 2010 , I wanted to break down the capabilities that are available when mixing Visio client and SharePoint versions. Visio 2013 client + SharePoint 2010 Coauthoring...

For those of you getting ready to update your SharePoint 2013 RTM farm to the March 2013 CU, here is a list of updates and their version numbers… Build Number Build Name SKU KB Article ​15.0.4420.1017 ​RTM ​​SharePoint Foundation 2013 ​ ​​15.0.4420.1017...

I am pleased to announce a comprehensive series of Visio Services training modules are now available online on MSDN. These modules are all based on Visio Professional 2013 and SharePoint 2013 and they all include downloads for the files that were used...

If you add a column to your SharePoint list and set the type to Hyperlink or Picture … you can create list items that contain hyperlinks that can be navigated by simply clicking on the column in the list view. The nice thing about this column type is...

Today we released a set of shapes for Visio that will help you diagram your deployments for Office 2013, Office 365, SQL, Azure, SharePoint 2013, Exchange 2013, etc. Click here to find out more about these shapes http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download...

If you are in a situation where you have updated your version of Visio to Visio 2013, but IT has not yet updated your SharePoint farm to SharePoint 2013, you will be in a situation where SharePoint does not understand Visio 2013 files saved in a document...

If you are building or maintaining COM add-ins that are based on Visual Basic 6 then this change to Office 2013 will most likely affect your add-in deployment The Add-In Designer Object Library (msaddndr.dll) is no longer shipped with Office 2013. Read...

In some cases I ( and my customers ) have run into build errors after upgrading VSTO based solutions ( for Visio or other Office applications ) from Visual Studio 2008 to Visual Studio 2010.  For example: The build errors noted above seem to indicate...

Visio Professional 2013 contains a powerful diagram validation feature which allows users to check their diagrams for common errors and allows companies to ensure that employees are creating consistent diagrams that meet criteria set by notation standards...

Context Menu, Right Mouse Action, call them what you want. When you right click on a Visio shape you are given options that will specifically target that shape. From a developers point of view, yes you can customize this menu…in a number of different...

  A series of webcasts on using Visio 2013 are now available.  Visit this link to sign up http://aka.ms/k5xiah   Here are some additional videos demonstrating the new capabilities and features of Visio 2013 - http://office.microsoft.com...

Why would you want to retrieve page images from your Visio diagrams via Visio Services? Visio Services will provide you with an image that you can incorporate into any application; WPF, Windows Phone, Windows 8, Apps for Office, etc. using two simple...

Today the Visio product team released the developer documentation for Visio 2013. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/fp161226(v=office.15).aspx Under the API section in the above article you will find these five important resources: · Visio...

Here is a quick answer to a common question about file format compatibility with Visio Services. In Visio 2013 you can choose to save in a number of different file formats: VSDX This is the new file format for 2013 and is also the new default file format...

It is no secret that Visio provides a template and a set of shape that allow you to easily create very rich and functional timeline diagrams. The shapes are actually designed to be data driven, meaning that the shapes provide data properties or Shape...

When working with a Cross Functional diagram in Visio 2010 you may find yourself zooming in and out to remember which lane you are in. Another issue is printing out large CFF diagrams across multiple pages. If you are working near the lane headings...

In addition to the technique I showed you in my pervious article about adding alerts to your SCOM diagrams , I wanted to show you how to add audio alerts to your Visio Services dashboard as well. The technique that I outlined in the previous article...

By now you should be aware that we have an add-in for Visio that allows you to connect to System Center Operations Manager data, published here - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chhopkin/archive/2012/04/03/visio-and-sharepoint-extensions-for-system-center-2012...

Typically when you develop a sandbox solution that contains ribbon customizations you “register” each custom action with a type so that your ribbon customizations show up in the proper location, i.e. when the user is looking at a document library or a...

Here is a new version of my Visio Services Mashup Starter project template.  This will install to both Visual Studio 2010 and 2012.  The HTML is setup for HTML5 since SharePoint 2013 supports HTML5 natively. Download this project template today...

To keep up on the new version of Visio make sure to follow the product team via their new blog, http://blogs.office.com/b/visio/

Today the preview for the next version of Office was announced and released, http://office.com/preview . This announcement includes the preview for the next version of Visio.  For information on all the new exciting capabilities, including the opportunity...

Here is the link to the MSDN article which is a complete reference for all the shapes in the stencils that are part of the SharePoint Workflow template in Visio 2010 Premium. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/visio-help/sharepoint-workflow-template-shapes...

There is a lot of buzz about HTML 5 and the support for HTML 5 provided by Internet Explorer, but what about adding HTML 5 content to pages on your SharePoint site? Sure we can do it, but you will need IE9 or another compatible HTML 5 browser. Why...