When I speak to SharePoint developers about the dashboard and API capabilities of Visio Services the first question I get asked is, “Can I link shapes in Visio 2010 to an External List and have Visio Services refresh the data in the published diagrams...

Published Visio diagrams can include hyperlinks which allow users to navigate to: other pages in the same diagram, other pages in other published diagrams, even other sites using standard URLs, when the diagram is published to Visio Services as a Visio...

The Data Linking wizard in Visio 2010 Professional and Visio 2010 Premium allows you to link data directly to the shapes in your diagram from a number of different data sources. For a review and tutorial on this functionality take a look at this article...

The MSDN article that describes the use of the addHighlight method for the VWA.Shape object ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff394531.aspx ) states that the color parameter must specify a color using the “#RRGGBB” hexidecimal color format, for...

When you connect data to your Visio diagram using the Data Linking wizard, there is one option to be aware of which is easily overlooked that may cause the data in your shapes to never update when your external data set is refreshed. If you look in the...