Looking back over the past year, I’ve created many posts on Visio. I’ve never made it clear why I am so passionate about a product I don’t work on. In this post I’m going to elaborate on my interest. My background First, I’ve had an interest in...

I saw a great post by the Visio Guy today ( Save Time & Simplify Your VBA Code With CallByName ) and thought it would be a good opportunity to demonstrate some of the simplification that you can achieve with the new features in C# 3.0 and using the...

Quick summary New updates available to the VisioAutoExt library Gradient Helper renamed to Fill Designer Fill Designer is a now a non-modal anchor window Can copy the size of one shape and paste that size into another shape Can snap...

Quick summary The VisioAutoExt library now contains an Add-In to Visio2007 called “Visio Helper” It’s an experimental add-in to help me optimize Visio for my tasks – creating new documents and drawing nice gradient fills No setup.exe available...

As a believer in the power of simple text formats, I wrote a tool to help make it easy to quickly draw org charts in visio by starting in notepad. It’s useful for more than “org charts” youcan use it to quickly render any simple hierarchical data. ...

Inspired by Chris Roth’s post on creating flowcharts programmatically and my original post on MSAGL with Visio , I’ve uploaded a new version of the VisioAutoExt library that has lets you automatically create flowcharts from a simple XML file. Quick...