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Along with the rest of the 2007 Office system, Visio 2007 Beta 2 is now available for public download at the download preview site . All you need to be able to install the application is a Windows Live ID/Passport account, which you can set up when you...

In this post I describe how to create Visio COM Add-ins with VS2005. It turns out that the add-ins created using the shared wizard I create have an issue such that they do not install correctly on machines that don’t have Visual Studio installed (i.e...

With the upcoming release of Visio 2007, I’ve had a number of questions recently about the .Net Primary Interop Assemblies (PIA) and how to make a managed COM add-in that works across different versions of Visio. First, a brief history. If you have...

A longstanding request from Visio developers has been support in Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO). I’m happy to say that for those of you in the Office Beta 1 program, you can start playing around with this now. For details on setting it up, check...

I'll be presenting a session at TechEd in Boston on programming the new Visio 2007 data features. Here are the session details: Microsoft Office Visio 2007: Building Data Visualization Solutions Day/Time: Thursday, June 15 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Room...

I’d like to let everyone know about the new Visio Insights blog , a joint blog written by the Visio team. The introductory post is up now and the posting schedule should be pretty regular. I’ll continue to post here but will also make some more general...