(updated 6/11/09 – added support for a dialog to allow you to set the interval between slides) Recently I was asked if it was possible to set a timer to automatically switch to the next page when in full screen mode, producing a slide show style presentation...

Recently a bug was discovered in the SCOM add-in ( download here ) which prevents the add-in from applying the cool custom data graphic icon set on any shapes that are linked to SCOM data. Luckily there are a few workarounds: For existing diagrams...

When you publish Visio diagrams with Visio 2010 Professional or Visio 2010 Premium using the new Web Diagram file format (VDW), Visio Services can render these diagrams in the browser.  Better yet, if these published diagrams are linked to a supported...

After installing the WBS Modeler add-in for Visio and creating a new diagram based on the WBS Modeler template the WBS Modeler menu should be available on the Visio menu as shown in Figure 1 below. Figure 1 Issue In some cases the WBS Modeler menu does...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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/

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...

I am releasing a Visual Web Part that I have developed that is to be used in conjunction with the Visio Web Access web part to give you an alternate ( and more customizable ) method for viewing the Shape Data property values and Hyperlinks for a shape...

I am happy to announce that we just released the source for the following Visio add-ins via CodePlex : Visio add-in for Disk Space Monitoring Visio add-In for Rack Server Virtualization Visio add-in for System Center   If you are not familiar with...

In a previous post I gave you a brief description of Click-Once vs. Windows Installer based deployment choices and how to choose between the two. In this post I will describe in detail how to setup a Windows Installer (MSI) based project for deploying...

First let me introduce myself, I am Chris Hopkins and I am an Application Development Consultant at Microsoft focusing on Visio solutions development. I recently joined Microsoft but my Visio experience is extensive. Before accepting this new role I was...

Visual Studio Tools for Office 3.0 (VSTO) is the latest release of VSTO since the 2005 SE release. If you are a Visio add-in developer you probably already know that the 2005 SE release was the first version of VSTO that provided support for Visio add...

If you are like most people you probably hate repetitive tasks. Adding the necessary changes to your MSI for PublishComponents support using the Visio Solution Publishing tool is one of these tasks. Not only that, if you deploy your MSI to a Vista machine...

I thought I would share a common function that I use in all of my add-ins to help me determine if Visio is of the correct version and edition in order for my add-in to execute properly. Copy and paste this into Visual Studio… /// <summary> /// Gets...

Supported diagrams Any Visio diagram can be published to Visio Services however there are limitations on the functionality that is provided by the client that will not be available when viewed in the browser using Visio Services. If you are not familiar...

The data linking wizard in Visio 2010 Professional and Premium allows you to connect a SQL table or view to your Visio diagram but the wizard does not give you the option to specify a stored procedure or a custom query. In this article I will show...

In a series of articles I explored the different scenarios around SQL and data refresh. One of the scenarios that I have not covered is how to create a data refreshable diagram from Analysis Services. If you do not already know this, Visio and Visio Services...

Refreshing diagrams from SQL Server using Windows Authentication If you did not read Part 1 of this series, do so now as it will help ensure that you have Visio Services, Excel Services and Secure Store Service configured properly. There are a few scenarios...

The Data Linking and Data Graphic features in Visio 2010 give you the ability to create very interesting and artistic dashboards, but the trick is to get the data that you need into a data source that Visio and Visio Services can refresh from. For this...

I am posting about the release of this training kit because the kit contains a lab that walks you through developing a web part page that hosts a Visio diagram and the JavaScript code needed to add additionally functionality to the diagram using Image...

Visio Services does not have a REST style API to allow you to get to shapes or data within the published Visio diagram, however you can access PNG versions of each page in a published diagram using a URL. For example, say you wanted to get the image...

The new containers feature in Visio 2010 is fantastic. If you have not heard of this feature then check out the product team blog article about containers, here http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visio/archive/2009/08/25/organizing-diagrams-with-containers.aspx...